When people leave their jobs, they don’t always go quietly. Greg Smith quit Goldman Sachs in 2012 with a blistering article in the New York Times, a 60-minute TV interview and, as if that were not enough, a book.
More recently, Chris Holmes resigned from his job at Stansted airport to run a bakery – and handed in his resignation letter on a cake. Meanwhile, flight attendant Steven Slater, who lost his patience with a passenger he claimed treated him rudely, left his job by activating the emergency evacuation chute on the plane and sliding down it, beer in hand.
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