--- description: Newscast director of Arizona station KOLD Mark Herman put his resignation letter on a cake title: This Man Just Quit His Job With a Cake image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Newsfeed](/tag/time-section-newsfeed/) ## Newsfeed Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # This Man Just Quit His Job With a Cake  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer May 4, 2015 5:02 PM CUT  by [Olivia B. Waxman](/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Staff Writer May 4, 2015 5:02 PM CUT The newscast director at the Arizona CBS affiliate KOLD broke the news that he was leaving by bringing in a cake with the text of his resignation letter on top. Mark Herman did give the station’s news director a print copy, but thought the dessert—white cake with strawberry filling and whipped cream frosting made by a Tucson bakery—would be a fun way to inform the rest of the office. Herman, who is taking a new job at the Nashville ABC affiliate WKRN, tells TIME he wasn’t trying to get back at his bosses in any way: “I have a great relationship with my managers, so it’s all in good fun.” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3845433/resignation-letter-cake/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3845433/resignation-letter-cake/"},"headline":"This Man Just Quit His Job With a Cake","datePublished":"2015-05-04T17:02:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:19:23.720Z","description":"Who says you can't have your cake and eat it too?","url":"https://time.com/3845433/resignation-letter-cake/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3845433/resignation-letter-cake/","name":"This Man Just Quit His Job With a Cake"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"5 Crazy Junk Food Combos","description":"5 Crazy Junk Food Combos","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/wogLxXmg/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-07-21T20:43:10.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/wogLxXmg.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3845433/resignation-letter-cake/","duration":"PT1M22S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3845433/resignation-letter-cake/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```