UPDATE [Oct 3, 2013]: The employer of Marina Shifrin, the writer who quit via a YouTube video, has accepted her resignation and wished her good luck, through their own YouTube video, which has also gone viral, with 1.5M views as of this writing. Entitled “An Interpretative Dance From Next Media Animation Set To Kanye West’s Gone”, the tongue-in-cheek video shows Shifrin’s boss and her colleagues having fun at work. They also announced that they are now hiring.
In case you haven’t heard of Marina Shifrin, allow us to bring you up to speed: She used to work at Next Media Animation, a production house that makes strange videos in the hopes that they become viral. In the two years that she was employed there, she’d given up pretty much everything just to please her boss, who only cared about pageviews and shares. And so she quit. By way of this video, which irony of ironies, has become unintentionally viral. Published on September 28, it now enjoys 7,535,595 views and counting.
Everybody thinks of these grand “I quit!” moves that aim to prove a point but, all we’ve ever really done is the quiet but hopefully dignified resignation letter. Which makes us wonder: Do you think Filipinos can do what Marina Shifrin has done? Sure, we have the humor, and the dancing skills too, if we may add. But do you think we have enough guts? Anyway, Check it out. Really funny.
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