WHEN Richard M. Nixon lost the California gubernatorial race of 1962, he famously (and, as it turned out, prematurely) held a news conference avowing, “You don’t have Nixon to kick around anymore.”

Fifty years later, he probably would have tweeted it.

The exit strategies of the recently unemployed have taken a new tack: social media is proving to be an outlet for those who decide that they don’t want to go quietly. Whether the leave-taking is voluntary or pink-slipped, anyone with a Facebook page, Twitter account or Tumblr feed can issue a very public kiss-off to a former boss or company, abandoning the conventional career advice about not bad-mouthing an employer when leaving a job.

After four years at a hotel in Providence, R.I., Joey DeFrancesco handed in his notice, accompanied by a dozen members of the band in which he plays trumpet, along with a friend to act as a videographer. “My manager really hated me, and I wanted a big send-off,” he said. He posted the video on Facebook (“for a few friends who are fellow hotel workers”) and uploaded it to YouTube, where it went viral. “The band was playing a Serbian song,” he said, “so I’m even a weird minor celebrity in Serbia.”

It seems unlikely that Dan Harmon will be working for NBC anytime soon. In May, after he was fired from “Community,” the TV comedy he had created, he took to Tumblr contradicting a statement from the network president that implied he would have a continuing role in the show.