But in the case of Conan O'Brien, there's something more to be said about giving an ongoing, bitterly hilarious middle finger to your bosses each nigh at 11:35 p.m. for as long as you can.

Ratings for the "Late Show with Conan O'Brien" have jumped while Conan's spent the past two weeks lambasting the executives at NBC for essentially pushing him out of his dream job after just seven months (he joked about the show celebrating it's .6th anniversary this week).

Unfortunately, his nightly shtick about getting kicked to the curb -- he seems genuinely pissed, and wouldn't you be if you were getting bumped for old man Leno? -- well, it all ends tonight for O'Brien, who's reportedly taking $45 million to walk away instead of move back to a later time slot.

Over this past week, it's been fun to watch the parade of stars that have come by to wish O'Brien luck, sympathy and, apparently, also jump at the chance to bash NBC (Adam Sandler Wednesday night). At the same time, it's been a little uncomfortable to laugh at O'Brien's pointed, although very funny, jabs at NBC for what so many are calling a business decision that proves just how out of touch the company is with what viewers want.

In fact, this post on the "I'm With COCO" Facebook fan page (605,867 fans and counting), sums it up:

It is a bummer to be loosing O'Brien. (Just for now hopefully. I have my fingers crossed on a brilliant, in-development Webisode series.) I've always been a Conan fan: strangely crushing on that orange tidal wave of hair and ever-so-slight dark sense of humor. But this girl's got to get up early and I never managed to stay up late enough to catch him on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien," which means I was stuck hearing about his most outrageous clips a day or so later.

For the past seven months, though, I could catch the monologue and still be in bed by midnight. And after I moved to Los Angeles this past summer, I had three shows I was dying to sit in the studio audience of: "Chelsea Lately," "Jeopardy," and, of course, Conan.

Damn my procrastination.

Ultimately, I don't really care who's right -- legally, morally, philosophically -- and who's wrong in this whole debacle. In the scheme of things -- you know, real problems going on in the world -- this contract kerfuffle doesn't really weigh on my mind. But, there's something to be said for sticking it to the man.

Maybe it's all a shtick. Maybe NBC loves the ratings rise at its own expense.

Or, maybe, and this is what I like to believe, Conan's got nothing to loose -- so he's going down swinging, and tonight we can all look forward to him landing that final knockout punch line.