Congress is afraid of their boss. (We, the people.) They worry about getting fired.
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"It was either these guys stealing the company or me getting fired, " he says.
As for another controversial perk, what could possibly be the point of paying CEOs for getting fired?
Turns out getting fired forced Zawacki to put the time and effort into really getting Lobster Gram going.
But over nine years he bounced around five firms, getting fired from several.
The district manager was on the verge of getting fired, says McIntyre, when the company brought her in to consult.
Indeed, for every anecdote of bad teachers not getting fired, we can find others to show how excellent teachers were fired.
Yes, there are horror stories of really terrible teachers not getting fired when they should, but these the exception to the rule.
MacArthur ended up getting fired, and a political firestorm ensued.
The 56-year-old, who has been out of coaching since getting fired by Torino in February 2007, was apparently selected ahead of Claudio Gentile, the former Juventus player and Italy under-21 coach.
It found that employees generally liked being praised even as they were getting fired, but that any favorable effects of the praise were eroded when a security guard escorted the worker out after the meeting.
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An unsurprising but sobering finding: Survey respondents said that getting fired damages candidates most severely, as opposed to other reasons for leaving a job like a layoff, chronic medical illness, disability or extended parental leave.
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Should we stop getting so fired up when our food resists our unrealistic expectations of uniformity ?
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Bingo, tax hand-outs in Washington are getting Americans fired too.
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Countless workers fantasize about getting their boss fired, but few succeed.
We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts, or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.
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The joke Down Under is that John Soutter should be fired for getting his sales projections so wrong.
Almost all of my peers are always nervous about the prospect of getting laid off or fired if they are lucky enough to be employed at all!
"Getting hit on the grill fired me up, " said Bopara, sporting a black eye and a bruised right cheek.
And so it was that bloggers came to the defense of one of their own--a mystery woman named Pamela Jones--and succeeded in having a story about her retracted and getting its author all but fired.
Some were fired within weeks of getting the job.
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With little hope of getting anything recovered, I gave up, fired up my Mac and started from scratch.
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If we stay in the job and choose not to follow the dress code, we risk getting left behind in the promotion game or fired.
For the first time, the National Labor Relations Board is getting involved in a situation where an employee was fired for trashing her supervisor on Facebook (according to the New York Times).
After getting swept by the Mets over four games, Girardi was fired up and got ejected in the fifth inning for arguing a forceout call against New York by second base umpire Vic Carapazza.
After getting swept by the Mets over four games, Yankees manager Joe Girardi was fired up and got ejected in the fifth inning for arguing a call against New York by second base umpire Vic Carapazza.
Ellison would have fired Phillips years ago if this mistress thing got in the way of his getting the job done at Oracle.
Officers are then seen getting out to apprehend the suspects after which the recording picked up the dull thuds of the bullets being fired by one of the officers.
But Tony Fratto, a spokesman in Mr Bush's administration, says the raw data matter less to voters than their personal sense of whether things are getting better, for example if a friend leaves a job for a better opportunity, rather than because he was fired.
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