Hit "Send," Then Hit the Door

It was not the most eloquent subject line for a farewell email to 5,000 co-workers: “So long, suckers! I’m out!”

But Jason Shugars worked at Google (GOOG), whose off-center corporate culture is more forgiving than that of your average buttoned-down investment bank. In the rest of his goodbye, Shugars, a senior sales compliance specialist, reminisced about workplace moments that included putting cake down his pants at a sales conference, stealing a boss’s $8,000 leather couch and singing “Hit Me Baby One More Time” in a miniskirt and braids.

“It took me a long time to write it,” said Shugars, 34, who left Google to become director of ad operations for the music streaming Web site, Imeem. “I didn’t want to send out a stale ‘good working with you, please reach me here’ e-mail. Who wants that?”

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