Apr 29 2009How To: Quit Your Gaming Development Job
Farbs, a game developer working for 2K Australia quit his job, and this is how he submitted his two six weeks -- with a custom game (A Message for 2K Australia)! And I'll tell you -- it sure takes the cake over this resignation! *brutally punching myself in the balls*
Farbs will no longer be working for 2K Australia come June 5th, having resigned his position in order to work full time creating games like the most excellent ROM CHECK FAIL.
Combining elements of Mario and a small splash of his own game, Polychromatic Funk Monkey, Farbs delivers one of the more entertaining "I Quit" notices you're ever likely to find.
Nice. Now call me old fashioned, but whatever happened to the old 'stop showing up for work' method of resignation? It's classic -- you just stop showing up for work. Everyone will start to get all worried and think you're dead. Which, I think we can all agree, I did for the lulz.
How To Quit Your Game Development Job [kotaku]
Thanks to Simon and Julian, who have both quit jobs by crashing their cars into the office lobby. Nice guys, I like your style.
Reader Comments
1. 1st, 2nd, 3rd Police - April 29, 2009 9:35 AM
PERFECT
2. Mr.Checkers - April 29, 2009 9:36 AM
MOO!
3. vincent - April 29, 2009 9:36 AM
FAKE !
4. STINK - April 29, 2009 10:05 AM
Six weeks notice?
By Friday security will deny him access to the building and hand him a box of his belongings.
5. Daisy - April 29, 2009 10:13 AM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max noticed the company had an ironclad policy that said it wouldn't fire anyone after they gave notice, and before their last day of work. The next day Max presented his boss with a letter giving his 40 year notice, and then stopped going into work. He's still receiving paychecks.
6. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 29, 2009 10:16 AM
@1
What is something you're far from being? I can totally kick that computer's ass on Jeopardy!
7. James - April 29, 2009 10:22 AM
Holy hell, GW - five links in your bloody post, and NONE of them link to the actual topic. The hell? Plugging previous posts that are marginally related to the topic is getting really, really old, dude. And why did you link to Kotaku for the source? Just to make me click another link to get to the actual game? Sheesh.
8. naas - April 29, 2009 10:52 AM
Well thanks for straightening it all out James, well done. It's been rough here before you came along & nobody here knows how to cry for help, so I am sure GW will tidy everything up so you're not inconvenienced again. Holy hell is right, now go on with your bad self and see if you can't find us a uni - corn
9. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - April 29, 2009 10:55 AM
@naas
Is the uni - corn like the plane-arium?
10. naas - April 29, 2009 11:07 AM
the plane - -it- arium, yes shum it is
11. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - April 29, 2009 11:31 AM
See- NOTICE, Some fücking NOTICE!!! That would've been nice. Now I'm stuck working Saturday... cowardly bitch...
12. Pat - April 29, 2009 11:50 AM
Awesome ... much better than the cake, though not quite as delicious.
13. Watch-303 - April 29, 2009 12:53 PM
This is nice. I'm glad he wasnt disgruntled and left a nasty message.
14. pojojuniper - April 30, 2009 9:55 AM
Rather than giving notice or not showing up for work, my sister and I use a method called we like to call "The Long Lunch." We go in to work and for the first half of the day it's business as usual. But then we subtly pack up and "go to lunch." Leaving this way is even more mysterious than the "stop showing up" method because at first people just think you're taking a long lunch (hence the name) but as the day goes on and you're still not back they begin to wonder...
15. laptop battery - November 5, 2009 10:47 PM
The hell? Plugging previous posts that are marginally related to the topic is getting really, really old, dude.