Right now you may be focused on how to keep your job instead of dreaming up the most legendary ways to quit it, but imagining a grand exit never fails to put a smile on the face of even the most disgruntled cubical dweller. Imagining how to leave as a legend is as much a part of our 9-5 lifestyle as dress codes and employee ids. After a hard day it is fun to plan a magnificent escape with friends over happy hour drinks, and every company has its own urban legend about someone who actually pulled off their resignation plans with enough flair that everyone noticed when they did. The tale of this bold, office legend is repeated at water coolers and coffee pots as often as the company's mission statement.

At my former employer our legend was about a guy who decided he was finished with the corporate world and strolled into work one day wearing a Hugh Hefner style robe in place of a suit and carrying a pipe and paper instead of his briefcase and lunch. The legend goes that he sat down and kicked his feet up on the table in the middle of the multi-purpose room where he smoked his pipe and read his paper until he was forcibly removed by security.

We love seeing and hearing about daring cube dwellers over a drink or cup of coffee and in TV and movies, too. In the cult classic, Office Space, Peter Gibbons eclipsed the cubicle wall to become a hero after he was fed up with being an unappreciated office drone. After hypnotic suggestion, Peter shirks convention and corporate culture to display the type of laid back, who-gives-a-[naughty language removed] attitude that many of us really feel when we are handing out wink and smile pleasantries.

No matter how the job market fluctuates, there are a few certainties about the work force, one being that a lot of people daydream about how they would leave their job with a bang. What's the best "I quit" story you have heard or seen? Or better yet, if there were no repercussions how would you plan your grand corporate exit?