Yeah, I mean, after he lost his job at the casino, he was always going on and on about getting back at them, so, you know, when the guy who fired him showed up one day,

He always asks people out, but nobody says yes, because he had a girlfriend once who worked here, and they broke up, and he fired her butt so fast.

It's particularly important -- this isn't on the World Wide Web, is it? I'm about to get fired -- it's particularly important that you never put the quality of your life in the hands of a commercial corporation.

So I had two months to sit there and figure out different ways of what I was going to do in my next life, after I was a photographer, because they were going to fire me.

He did not think so, however, but his coworkers did an intervention and they said, "You are going to rehab, or you will be fired and you will die."

One, you're doing something that you should follow a procedure to, and it's a very difficult thing, you're sloppy, you get it wrong. How should you be treated? You should probably be fired.

And maybe at this point, when you know what I do, or maybe what I've failed to do, you'll think that I probably ought to be fired, and I could certainly understand that.

Charlie Kim, who's the CEO of a company called Next Jump in New York City, a tech company, he makes the point that if you had hard times in your family, would you ever consider laying off one of your children?

One wag wrote: ["Please, could you expel, or, at least, restrain, the comma-maniac, on your editorial staff?"] (Laughter) Ah, well.

Now, I don't see how an unemployed cashier from Wal-Mart reinvents herself or himself at 50 as a designer of virtual worlds, and certainly I don't see how the millions of unemployed Bangladeshi textile workers will be able to do that.

I worked in a leather goods store, and I also worked in a video store, and not being one who was very fond of the retail arts -- (Laughter) I got fired from every single job.

We're lazy, we're sensitive, we're fired, we're also hated, and we think we're important.

One of the first times an American was ever brought over to Japan to lead a professional Japanese baseball team, Bobby Valentine, in 1995, he took this really mediocre squad, he lead them to a stunning second-place finish, and he was instantly fired.