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    The arrival of his new son, Benjamin (left) prompted dad Chris Holmes to reexamine his priorities and consider leaving his current job. The answer to both was cake.

  • Chris Holmes, who works at the UK's Border Service at...

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    Chris Holmes, who works at the UK's Border Service at London's Stansted Airport, resigned by communicating his message in the form of cake. He is leaving to start a cake business.

  • Chris Holmes quit his job because he wants to spend...

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    Chris Holmes quit his job because he wants to spend more time with his family, and cake.

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Well, this resignation takes the cake.

Chris Holmes, a UK Border Agency employee quit his job by icing his resignation letter on to a cake, according to a report in the Daily Mail.

In the letter, he said he wanted to devote more time to his growing cake business as well as his family.

The arrival of his new son, Benjamin (left) prompted dad Chris Holmes to reexamine his priorities and consider leaving his current job. The answer to both was cake.
The arrival of his new son, Benjamin (left) prompted dad Chris Holmes to reexamine his priorities and consider leaving his current job. The answer to both was cake.

“Having recently become a father I now realise how precious life is and how important it is to spend my time doing something that makes me and other people happy,” Holmes wrote.

The confection was a carrot cake made with coconut, pecans and grapes and frosted in orange buttercream, according to the Mail.

Chris Holmes quit his job because he wants to spend more time with his family, and  cake.
Chris Holmes quit his job because he wants to spend more time with his family, and cake.

The resignation first started making Internet waves when his relative Stuart Jackson tweeted a photo of it, writing, “So, my brother-in-law has resigned from his 9-to-5 job in spectacular fashion. Jerry Maguire meets Masterchef.”

The cake apparently didn’t leave a bitter taste in his former employer’s mouth. An official with the Border Force told the Mail, Holmes “leaves with our best wishes.”

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