MetaFilter posts tagged with firing

Gross Misconduct

Snyder — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:51:56 -0800

Man fired for saving life. Follow-up here.

But PURGEgate? I'm sorry, that's a dumb name.

JHarris — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 09:52:16 -0800

The Purgegate Primer is a helpful document from The Morning News to assist all us armchair pundits in making sense of the U.S. Attorney scandal. Brought to us by the letter Q and recently-mentioned defective yeti, who it seems is about more than just laughs. (Also see his Plamegate Cheatsheet.)

Get sexually harassed, get fired.

skallas — Sat, 16 Oct 2004 03:45:11 -0800

Get sexually harassed, get fired. Fox News is pushing to fire Andrea Mackris. The firing will not be "in retaliation for her accusations about the show's host." Now that's Fair and Balanced! How is this even legal?

blogging gets you fired

mathowie — Tue, 28 Oct 2003 21:43:16 -0800

Another day, another blogger gets fired (from Microsoft, in this case) for posting something harmless to their blog.

Ignorance Is Truth.

JollyWanker — Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:42:50 -0800

"Now America is reappraising the battlefield, delaying the war, maybe a week and rewriting the war plan. The first plan has failed because of Iraqi resistance. Now they are trying to write another plan." Seems patently obvious, no? But tell Iraqi state television that and suddenly you're speaking from "a position of complete ignorance," according to the White House.

Peter Arnett, highly respected, Pulitzer Prize winner and the first journalist to interview Osama Bin Laden on film, wouldn't back down the last time a network caved into craven submission at hands of the American military, and he's been sacked by NBC/MSNBC for again refusing to do so. There's no First Amendment case, obviously, and no real surprise that the military would be exerting pressure to maintain control over information, but does the firing of high-profile Arnett for the repeating the obvious increase anybody's confidence that we're hearing anything resembling the truth?

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?

mathowie — Wed, 14 Aug 2002 09:17:39 -0800

Today's lesson: Write a letter to a congressman, get fired for it. Was this abuse of a work email account, or a miffed congressman's office overstepping its bounds? Ah, dissent in the 21st century, what a time we live in.

Irontom — Tue, 02 Jul 2002 09:54:14 -0800

Goodwill Industries Fires Worker for Being a Communist
Sewing-machine operator Michael Italie was fired by Goodwill for his Marxist beliefs. He had not been proselytizing within the Goodwill plant, and he was not accused of doing so. His political views became an issue after he appeared on television to participate in the Miami mayoral race.

magullo — Wed, 20 Mar 2002 09:12:22 -0800

New York post fires reporter for story on Disney ... but publishes no corrections ...

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

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