Hasta La Gadget!

Sep 30

Thinking of quitting? Make a YouTube video as moving as this

Dancing out of a job.

(Credit: Nvsdzb/YouTube Screenshot by Chris Matyszczyk/CNET)

Your boss is an annoying little worm, isn’t he?

He doesn’t respect you. He doesn’t promote you. He makes you work late, while he’s out at a fancy restaurant, “networking.”

So you want to quit. And you want to do it good. What should you do?

In the case of Marina Shifrin — whose bosses don’t sound like the most accommodating in the world, if you take her word for it — she decided to make a dancing video and post it to YouTube.

Conveniently, the company that she worked for is familiar with the idea of viral video. It’s called Next Media Animation. It’s a news video company, based in Taiwan.

In the video, which has already enjoyed more than 600,000 views, Shifrin is at work at 4:30 a.m. She says: “For almost two years, I’ve sacrificed my relationships, time, and energy for this job.”

Well, when I say she “says” this, the words are on the screen. Shifrin is dancing to the tune of Kanye’s “Gone.”