#fired

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday. ↗

— Nelson Algren

#got #guy #hired #i #me

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation. ↗

— Lee Child

#fired #i #job #really #simple

After I was fired from Disney, I did some of the worst movies ever made. ↗

— Tommy Kirk

#did #disney #ever #fired #i

Perhaps they never left the island when construction was complete," Otto replied. Wing raised an eyebrow. "A true job for life." "Or a life for a job," Otto countered. He wouldn't be at all surprised, given the emphasis on total secrecy, if H.I.V.E. offered an "aggressive" retirement package for lower-level employees. Here, being fired was probably a term that was taken a little too literally. ↗

— Mark Walden

#humor #otto #wing #education

I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control. ↗

— Lynda Barry

#constant #constant fear #control #dark #dropped

I stepped into the bedroom where he was killed and looked up at the ceiling, where you could still see the patterns of blood that had spurted from bin Laden's head when the bullet fired by a U.S. Navy SEAL tore through the terrorist leader's face. ↗

— Peter L. Bergen

#bin #blood #bullet #ceiling #could

In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don't see the need to shout my mouth off in public. ↗

— Jenson Button

#calm #camera #car #fired #front

Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit. ↗

— George Carlin

#fired #get #hard #just #money

The British regulatory system was revised, so that bigger profits were encouraged, which removed the option of big spending on programming. Quality just fell off a cliff, and all the old hands either left or were fired for being too expensive. ↗

— Lee Child

#big #bigger #british #cliff #either

Getting fired is hard. ↗

— Alice Barrett

#getting #hard