The Wall Street Journal has a fun piece on funny or awkward farewell emails people have written to their coworkers upon departure from their employer:

At the law firm Alston & Bird, one departing associate baffled his colleagues by sending everyone a black-and-white photo of himself, with only his name and start and quit dates written beneath “as if it was a tombstone,” says John E. Stephenson, a partner in Atlanta who has been keeping a “Dead Soldiers” file of his colleagues’ goodbye notes for 27 years. “It caused a firestorm because people thought he had died.” The associate had to follow up with another email saying, “I’m not dead. I’m sorry to have concerned so many of you,” Mr. Stephenson says.

I like this parody farewell email from Chris Kula:

For nearly as long as I’ve worked here, I’ve hoped that I might one day leave this company,” he began. “I have been fortunate enough to work with some absolutely interchangeable supervisors on a wide variety of seemingly identical projects—an invaluable lesson in overcoming daily tedium in overcoming daily tedium in overcoming daily tedium.

But the best way to get someone’s attention? Write an email with the subject line “FREE FOOD.”