From the Editors
Dry Erase Quitter Girl Is a Hoax
The girl Jenny who quit her job on a dry-erase board in 33 photos is a hoax, The Chive, the site which originally posted the photos, has confirmed (in 16 more photos!). The meme swept the internet yesterday, with The First Post calling Jenny JetBlue flight attendant Stephen Slater's "close competitor in the stylish resignation stakes," but Peter Kafka at MediaMemo was one of the first bloggers to sniff out the fact that the "resignation" was most likely a hoax, tracing The Chive's owners back to various other internet hoaxes. Today, the internet is a little embarrassed that it fell for the Jenny story--and it should be, says Boing Boing: "The entire internet was also apparently born yesterday. Seriously, have people never seen a fake before? Because this is SCREAMING fake. In all caps. First of all, who does something like this and doesn't post it on their own blog/tumblr/twitter but instead posts it on a comedy content site?" "Let's just hope JetBlue doesn't come out and reveal that the whole hatch-blowing, slide-jumping flight attendant thing is for an upcoming reality show," says The Consumerist."
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