--- title: 'How #QuitYourJobin5Words Exploded on Twitter' description: 'Crowdsourced hashtag-brainstorm #QuitYourJobin5Words is often funny, NSFW and definitely not advisable.' authors: - name: Martha C. White role: Writer url: https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/ education: BA, English, Princeton University at_money_since: 2015 articles: 350 covers: - Career Advice - Banking - Business - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Federal Reserve Rate Cuts - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology published: '2016-08-10T14:07:26.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T03:14:35.000Z' section: Career Advice tags: - hashtag - pubdesk - quityourjobin5words - quityourjobinfivewords - twitter - Workplace word_count: 229 canonical: https://money.com/quityourjobin5words-hashtag/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![How #QuitYourJobin5Words Exploded on Twitter](https://img.money.com/2016/08/160810_gal_quitjob_weekends.jpg?quality=85&w=1012&h=569&crop=1) Plenty of things take on a life of their own once they hit the Internet, but a crowdsourced hashtag, #QuitYourJobin5Words (alternately, #QuitYourJobinFiveWords), went viral overnight on Tuesday, with a virtual flash mob of sorts chiming in with plenty of pithy, five-word mic drops. By Wednesday morning, the hashtag had racked up tens of thousands of mostly tongue-in-cheek, often NSFW signoffs, like the following: The collective joke-slash-brainstorm developed shortly after a similar hashtag comment-fest, Saturday’s #First7Jobs (or #FirstSevenJobs) garnered lots of [attention](https://time.com/4442332/first-seven-jobs-twitter-buzz-aldrin/) and not a few boldface names — think Lin-Manuel Miranda, who once manned a slushie machine, and Stephen Colbert, who bussed tables back in his pre-comedy days. Of course, there are drawbacks to quitting when you don't have another job lined up even if you don't fire off a snappy parting shot that would probably get you fired, as some Twitter users obliquely pointed out: If you want to quit, it might seem satisfying to get in one last dig at a colleague or your boss, but it's really not advisable, and could result in an awkward moment if you have to contact them later, as Hamilton star [Daveed Diggs](https://money.com/hamilton-star-daveed-diggs-w2-lost/) found out when he needed to contact an employer he ghosted on for some tax paperwork. 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