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:

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