How to Have An Epic Office Meltdown

If you’ve finally had it with your job, maybe it’s time to let your boss and co-workers know how you really feel. Here’s how Nina Whitley completely lost it at her fancy law firm—and then lost her job.

Get upsetting news from your ex, preferably that he or she is marrying someone else only months after you broke up.

How to Have An Epic Office Meltdown

Be up for a big work promotion only to have your boss announce that your not nearly as qualified nemesis is getting promoted instead.

How to Have An Epic Office Meltdown

Extra points if you’ve sacrificed your personal life in order to dedicate yourself fully to your job for several years.

How to Have An Epic Office Meltdown

Start saying whatever comes to mind—e.g. insulting your boss, select co-workers and especially the recipient of the promotion.

How to Have An Epic Office Meltdown

Knock things over, ideally delicate glasses and other fragile items that shatter into a gabillion pieces.

How to Have An Epic Office Meltdown

Throw things against the wall, aimed in some proximity to your nemesis’s head. Vases filled with flowers are especially dramatic.

How to Have An Epic Office Meltdown

Find the most invaluable object in the room—e.g. a hideous urn gifted to the company by a rock legend—and smash it on the floor.

How to Have An Epic Office Meltdown

If possible, throw in the term “pie hole,” especially directed at your boss in a torrent of inflammatory remarks.

How to Have An Epic Office Meltdown

Make a dramatic exit…or at least try to.

How to Have An Epic Office Meltdown

Optional: Backtrack. When that fails, drive that nail into your professional coffin. Cursing and rude hand gestures should do the trick.

How to Have An Epic Office Meltdown

If you’ve finally had it with your job, maybe it’s time to let your boss and co-workers know how you really feel. Here’s how Nina Whitley completely lost it at her fancy law firm—and then lost her job.

How to Have An Epic Office Meltdown

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