Mark Schlueb email in spotlight again

Mark Schlueb's parting email at Knight-Ridder CEO Tony Ridder is the lead in Jack Shafer's article about snappy retorts on the way out the door of your ex-employer. In Slate.com, Shafer quotes Schlueb's classic 2001 line, much in the manner of the huffy Ann Hill memo of Beacon Journal lore: "I would have loved to piss on your shoes."

Schlueb went to the Orlando Sentinel after his ouster from the BJ. He was laid off as BJ county government reporter 10 months after leaving his Daytona Beach News-Journal job and bringing his family to Akron

Click on the headline to read about what others wrote when their employers showed them the door.

To read Schlueb's email to Ridder, who rode K-R to its grave, click on Mark Schleub