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Bob Edwards

Durwood — Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:59:49 -0800

Bob Edwards gets the boot! The host of National Public Radio's "Morning Edition" since its inception in 1979 has been forced out of that job. What's next to go? Susan Stamberg's cranberry relish?

Cirque du SoLame

adrober — Tue, 22 Jul 2003 00:28:02 -0800

Cirque Du Soleil fires HIV positive gymnast. "It's preposterous for Cirque de Soleil to call Matthew a 'known safety hazard,'" Gorenberg said. "Cirque du Soleil denied Matthew this job not because of sound science or rational concern for other employees but because of unfounded fear. It defies both common sense and science to think that Matthew would exchange bodily fluids with another gymnast while flying through the air."

Fired by text message

feelinglistless — Fri, 30 May 2003 12:54:49 -0800

Fired by text message by the ironically titled Accident Group. Staff advised that they wouldn't be paid either. I'm suspecting that the legalities of this are pretty shaky.

Lookism Gone Awry

MiguelCardoso — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 21:20:41 -0800

Perhaps This Public Image/Persona Thing Has Gone Just A Little Too Far: Luís Campos Lopes, the manager of the Portuguese football team Vitoria de Setúbal has just been sacked for "projecting a negative image of the club". [Link in Portuguese, but please read on.] The reason? Just watch the photo-sequence in the main link. Luís Lopes had trouble putting on his Setúbal vest during a crucial game with Benfica! I.e. the powerful sports media in Portugal and Brazil have had a riot with the photographs and the poor widdle proprietors were embarrassed. So? He may not be a brilliant manager - but isn't this blatant lookism? Isn't "image" becoming much too big for its boots, as it were, in professional sports? [Here is the only English language reference I could find. Please scroll down to "Luís Campos".]

prentiz — Wed, 30 Oct 2002 01:36:30 -0800

Trial by Tabloid? Top BBC presenter Angus Deaton has been sacked after a sex & drugs scandal. He has presented comedy news quiz Have I Got News For You for over ten years. So, is ti right for him to be sacked after trial by tabloid? Do we actually care what our T.V. presenters get up to after the cameras are turned off?

NedKoppel — Thu, 05 Sep 2002 07:27:07 -0800

Dear Ann Coulter: You're fired.

wsfinkel — Thu, 23 May 2002 07:49:44 -0800

Assistant's Revenge So she got fired! But she did get to tell her boss off in the New York Post!

Bluecoat93 — Tue, 09 Oct 2001 10:42:36 -0800

Welcome to my weblog. I hope you enjoy it. I just got fired for it.

stevis — Mon, 01 Oct 2001 14:52:50 -0800

Columnists Fired After Criticizing Bush Two columnists for dailies in Texas and Oregon have been fired after writing pointed opinion pieces critical of President Bush's handling of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.