The Way We Quit Internships Now: With a Bang

The following is a real email sent by an intern to the editor-in-chief of a well-known web publication.

From: [REDACTED]
Date: Mon, Aug 2, 2010 at 12:34 AM
Subject:
To: [THE BOSS]

[REDACTED],

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].

[REDACTED]