Woman Quits Her Job in Spectacular Late-Night Dance Video Set to Kanye West

Marina Shifrin goes for it

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Meet Marina Shifrin, the newest member of the Funemployed.

In a video for her boss—OK, and all of YouTube—Shifrin dances around her (now former) employer's office to Kanye West's "Gone," and captions it with her reasons for quitting, such as endless late nights and being squeezed for quantity over quality as a video producer. Ironically, the result is video gold, racking up over 4.5 million views in just three days.

"I dropped everything for work," Shifrin explains in a blog post titled Journalism is Dead (To Me).

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