How To Resign Classily
From the Awl, a real e-mail sent from an intern to the editor-in-chief of a well-known web publication:
This is not going to work out. After last week, I can no longer in good conscience stay at [NAME OF PUBLICATION]. I don’t think making bar graphs and quoting other websites is going to make me be a better writer. I quit.
Good luck selling those [NAME OF ONE OF THE PUBLICATION'S ADVERTISERS].
Yikes.
Stay classy, intern.
The commenters have it best:
“zachdionne” wrote: “[This is] someone who doesn’t get it, and is going to try to make it in media with some shimmering ideal. And they’re gonna fail.
Seriously. Let’s see a Where Are They Now update on this valiant knight in a year’s time.”
“Sunnyciegos” wrote: “Answering phones didn’t make me a better writer, but sitting in on editorial meetings did.”
And Choire Sicha added his own two cents: “I really am torn. I admire moxie! And brio! Even when it’s self-defeating. Maybe especially when.
I can’t help but admire it. It’s an illness.
I do think though that the best way to quit your internship is with a nice note and an immediate vacancy.”
Last, from “BadUncle”: “If nothing else, this kid just killed his chance at a “My Shitty Bar Graph Internship” article.”
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