Mar 19 2009Mmmm, The Most Delicious Resignation Ever

When Neil Berrett decided it was time to put in his two-weeks notice he did it deliciously -- with a cake! The cake reads as follows:
Dear Mr. Bowers,
During the past three years, my tenure at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard has been nothing short of pure excitement, joy and whim.However, I have decided to spend more time with my family and attend to health issues that have recently arisen. I am proud to have been part of such an outstanding team and I wish this organization only the finest in future endeavors.
Please accept this cake as notification that I am leaving my position with NWT on March 27.
Sincerely,
W. Neil berrett
Nice one, Neil. I typically like to go out with an f-bomb parade or a good old fashioned Xerox'ed penis, but hey, whatever cracks your tractor.
Man resigns from job by handing in notice on cake [telegraph]
Thanks to Julian, who resigned from his last job with a gallon of gasoline and box of matches. Oooh, going away fireworks!

Reader Comments
1. naas - March 19, 2009 3:10 PM
great idea!
2. poop on my small shaft - March 19, 2009 3:12 PM
TINA TURNER
Well the men come in these places
And the men are all the same
You dont look at their faces
And you dont ask their names
You dont think of them as human
You dont think of them at all
You keep your mind on the money
Keeping your eyes on the wall
Chorus
Im your private dancer
A dancer for money
Ill do what you want me to do
Im your private dancer
A dancer money
Any old music will do
I wanna make a million dollars
I wanna live out by the sea
Have a husband and some children
Yeah I guess I want a family
All the men come in these places
And the men are all the same
You dont look at their faces
And you dont ask their names
Repeat chorus twice
Deutschmarks or dollars
American express will nicely thank you
Let me loosen up your collar
Tell me do you wanna see me do the shimmy again
Repeat chorus
3. naas - March 19, 2009 3:12 PM
...it's missing a frosting outline of the 7 legged spider
http://www.geekologie.com/2008/11/7legged_spider_drawing_sells_o.php
4. mooooo - March 19, 2009 3:14 PM
4th!!!
5. Kup - March 19, 2009 3:17 PM
..... I cant believe his junk isnt popping up thru the middle of it......' Helllooo San Francisco!!!!"""
6. koOPa - March 19, 2009 3:18 PM
Genius!
7. Toad - March 19, 2009 3:20 PM
I think this one's a fake. His arms look way too long.
8. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 19, 2009 3:22 PM
I shall keep this in mind... I'm getting irritated at salary negotiations... perhaps I should simply bake a cake and be done with it...
9. SmokingGirl - March 19, 2009 3:22 PM
That guy's pink shirt is totally throwing me off...
I'm sorry, no matter how many times I'm told that a guy wearing pink is "manly" and "okay" it still just reeks of wrongness.
However, you add the white tie and black vest, and then it just reeks of gayness. So meh, it guess in the end it just reeks. Much like cake reeks of tears and late nite snacking.
10. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 19, 2009 3:26 PM
SG - good to see you commenting again and under your own name even!!
11. SmokingGirl - March 19, 2009 3:30 PM
Thanks for the "Welcome Back", FAH-Q.
I couldn't stay away forever, because let's admit it, Geekologie is my crack.
I heart you, Geekologie.
12. naas - March 19, 2009 3:31 PM
@8 don't forget to put the spider on it if you do, it adds a great finishing touch to something like a resignation cake
13. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 19, 2009 3:32 PM
Me too... I want to leave, but then I lurk, then I comment... damnit... always sucking me back in...
~Thumperchica
14. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - March 19, 2009 3:34 PM
@13
I love you!
~ Douche McAllister
15. naas - March 19, 2009 3:34 PM
@11 looks like a nasty ankle you have there, is it broken or sprained?. I've done that twice before, shitty
16. naas - March 19, 2009 3:35 PM
^ ^ wait...what the
17. catch22 - March 19, 2009 3:37 PM
woulda been funnier if it was an angry cake... or if the nice cake was full of lazitives or something
18. naas - March 19, 2009 3:38 PM
welcome back both of you, from never having been gone in the first place
19. SmokingGirl - March 19, 2009 3:39 PM
Why the name change, Thumper?
And @naas, it's broken. The bottom part of my fibula just snapped right off; but you know, that's what happens when you play roller derby. Damn bones and their snappage ability.
At least it wasn't a tendon...so weeeeeeeee.
20. naas - March 19, 2009 3:42 PM
@19 ahh crappy. I rolled my left ankle twice skateboarding years ago. It's healed today as if it never happened, but of all the bones to break it's one you use to walk =/
~known
21. SmokingGirl - March 19, 2009 3:47 PM
@20, I'd rather hobble around than not be able to wipe my own ass because my arm is broken.
There's silver linings in everything. :)
22. Spith - March 19, 2009 3:48 PM
Note to self: next time I resign, do it by cake.
23. livingjetlag - March 19, 2009 3:59 PM
I'd hate to be the Human Resources guy who has to put the cake in his employment file. Even if you carefully scraped off the icing layer...
24. naas - March 19, 2009 4:08 PM
@21 good point, but you have another arm if things get messy.
25. sr71 - March 19, 2009 4:15 PM
the place he is quitting from is in San Fran, which explains the gay ass
shirt/tie/vest. Also "attend to health issues that have recently
arisen"= AIDS! And the long looking arms is evolution in action, gay
people are getting longer arms to give reach-a-rounds.
26. Darth - March 19, 2009 4:17 PM
That's at least a $100 cake! He's a very generous guy!
27. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 19, 2009 4:30 PM
SG - Started out because GW locked down the cursing in comments, then he dialed it back to mostly blocking racial epithets and the F-word. My name change was my mediocre attempt at protest. It was inspired by the Verizon customer service rep who couldn't differentiate between $.02 and $.002. http://www.geekologie.com/2009/02/verizon_customer_service_reps.php
In short, I think it sucks ass when some people can flame and say whatever the hell they want, but if someone dissagrees they want to have them censored. They won. I think it's crap.
28. C-Basstian - March 19, 2009 4:44 PM
im glad im not the only one that noticed that his arms are not really really really long...
29. SmokingGirl - March 19, 2009 4:54 PM
Thumper-That sucks and hey, protest away, babe, protest away.
Change...into a truck. That's what I say.
30. Madgame - March 19, 2009 4:54 PM
my tractor needs a good crackin'
31. Thumperchica - March 19, 2009 6:16 PM
I'm just a smelly whore anyway.
32. Remo - March 19, 2009 6:27 PM
Leave it to a guy in a pink dress shirt and a white tie.
33. Watch - March 19, 2009 7:05 PM
Very nice to do, shows the boss there that he can be rehired.
34. Marilyn - March 19, 2009 9:04 PM
That's so awesome, but there's gotta be a catch somewhere. hmmm... "oh no, you put WHAT in that cake!? "
35. BB - March 19, 2009 10:18 PM
some day I want to do this!
36. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 19, 2009 10:43 PM
@9: I have no idea who's telling you that guys in pink shirts are "manly", but they are completely wrong. If it's a guy telling you this, and says he's straight...he's wrong. And gay. Very, very gay. If it's a girl telling you this, then you need to either slap her or laugh at her...or maybe I dunno, shake her hand if you are sadistic... because it means she happened to convince some guy that wearing pink was "manly".
~SPELLINGNAZI
37. formerly SPELLINGNAZI© - March 19, 2009 10:43 PM
Oh, and wtf was this guy doing working in a shipyard anyway?
38. JD - March 20, 2009 1:38 AM
Hmmm. "(Hunters Point Naval Shipyard) was entirely closed in 1994, although it continues to receive attention due to the large amounts of hazardous waste remaining to be cleaned up.". - Wikipedia
Was he cleaning up toxic waste in that outfit? I'm pretty sure this was faked.
39. The Lone Shadow - March 20, 2009 2:28 AM
Hey, i think this is fake.
Mr Bowers? More like MR BOWSER! Clever, Mr Koopa, but not clever enough.
RAWR! Join us, Mr Koopa. Join us or we'll hook up Mrs Koopa's nipples (Wait... do Koopas have nipples?) to the car battery... OF JUSTICE!!!!
40. Mark - March 20, 2009 8:42 AM
If this guy worked for me I'd tell him to loose the shirt, stfu and gbtw.
41. Pat - March 20, 2009 9:13 AM
Classy!
The art of the florid resignation note is certainly a hidden skill.
42. blah - March 20, 2009 9:26 AM
Would you eat this cake if you were his boss?
"I don't think so, no jizz icing for me thanks."
43. pappy - March 20, 2009 9:52 AM
Let me try and shed some light on those health issues...
HIV ------> AIDS
Shocked? didnt think so
44. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 20, 2009 10:01 AM
31- Clever, very very clever... *rolls eyes* You got me, I'm smelly, and a whore. Now everyone knows!
45. Kup - March 20, 2009 12:01 PM
@42. you are spot on!!!!!! No DNA icing for me, thank you mr fudgepacker!
46. nicemusic - March 20, 2009 1:44 PM
I strongly suggest you find more on hot hook-up club http://www.richpassion.com/, where the successful and affluent singles and hot girls and models, who also like sports, to hook up for Love, Romance, Flirt and Sexy Dating!
47. Leonidas - March 20, 2009 3:09 PM
Oiga Thumperchica, I made you more than a month ago (check the link, dear)!! Don't think I'm ready to come out of the closet yet though (I'm gonna need an alibi for when Ollie Williams's corpse washes up).
48. Leonidas - March 20, 2009 3:19 PM
Napoleon: how are you going to resign?
Gay Pedro: I dunno, build them a cake or something.
49. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - March 20, 2009 4:47 PM
47- That you did. Oi!
50. Leonidas - March 20, 2009 5:06 PM
@11: "Geekologie is my crack" *sigh* maybe I'll meet all of you in the unemployment line one day. It'll be like the ending of Golden Axe, with all the beasties in single file...
I have to ask about that ankle though - roller derby, or Guitar Hero?
51. SmokingGirl - March 21, 2009 10:29 AM
@50, as I stated previously, I broke it playing roller derby. Which is actually quite funny considering the fact that I have played for various teams over the past 2 and a half years, but as soon as I joined this new team...I break my ankle. I'm assuming that there is some sort of message, but I don't know whether to take it as ominous or fair-weather.
And btw, Guitar Hero = ghey
52. Matthew Mulkey - July 20, 2009 2:29 PM
Ok that has to b THE most original and creative way to say your leaving. It turns what could be an uncomfortable moment into more of a celebration....BRAVO!!