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Newsman’s resignation puts the icing on the cake

You’ve got a job you love, and then you get a better one.  Good for you – but how can you leave your soon-to-be ex-colleagues with a good taste in their mouths?


Mark Herman, newscast director at KOLD-TV in Tucson, filed a particularly sweet departure notice – printed on a luscious strawberry-filled white cake with whipped cream icing.

The resignation cake, <a href=http://i.imgur.com/EwRa6O9.jpg>as posted on Imgur</a>
The resignation cake, as posted on Imgur



“I handed in the most delicious letter of resignation ever,” Herman posted on Reddit.

Talk about putting the icing on the cake!

In a breezy chat with blogger Jim Romanesko, Herman said his local bakery had never attempted anything like this before, but the idea intrigued them, and they were only too happy to oblige.

“I’m a bit of a joker, and a cake of resignation is pretty damn hilarious,” Herman told Romanesko.

Herman’s boss, KOLD news director Michelle Germano, was sorry to see him go, but reportedly got a good laugh out of the cake.  Herman also filed a paper version of his resignation, a bit more suitable for life in Germano’s filing cabinet.

There is a precedent.  In 2013, The Guardian highlighted the home-made carrot cake resignation of Chris Holmes, an immigration officer at London’s Stanstead Airport.  While Herman’s resignation was professionally printed, Holmes painstakingly hand-iced every letter of his farewell message directly onto the cake.

And that’s appropriate because, while Herman is leaving KOLD to take up a similar position at WKRN in Nashville, Holmes departed to become a baker – and actually make cakes.