Getting Fired

Going in a Different Direction

Deborah Gaines | Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Law, Dewey & LeBeouf, Unemployment, Bankruptcy, Steve Davis, Termination, Criminal Probe, Getting Fired, Fifty News

In another lifetime, I was chief marketing officer for Dewey & LeBoeuf's predecessor, LeBoeuf Lamb. I was fired by a key player in today's drama back in 2007.

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WATCH: Getting Fired Helps You Learn, From Joy Behar

Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Mondays With Marlo, Career Advice, Marlo Thomas, Getting Fired, Joy Behar, Video, Women News

Talk show host and comedian Joy Behar explains why she believes that getting fired helps you learn. var src_url="http://pshared.5min.com/Scripts/Pl...

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Losing My Job Improved My Life

James Kunen | Posted 03.28.2012

Read More: Book News, Losing Job Advice, Getting Fired, Losing Job, Start New Career, Getting Fired Advice, Change Career, Laid Off, Books News

I'd been downsized. Thrown under the bus. I had thought I didn't like spending my precious days on Earth sealed into a box at Time Warner headquarters, where I toiled in corporate communications, but I had no idea how alienated I was. Now, anything was possible.

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Getting Past "I Was Fired" on a Job Interview

Liz Ryan | Posted 01.15.2012

Read More: Fired, Termination, Career, Job Search, Advice, Employment, Career Advice, Job Interview Advice, Job Interview Tips, Career Tips, Job Interviews, Getting Fired, Business News

It's no shame to admit that there are mismatches between people and other people, cultures and values and styles and priorities, every day. A mismatch doesn't mean that one person is right and the other one is wrong. It doesn't mean that people who get fired are useless and unworthy.

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Make Getting Fired Work In Your Favor

Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: Finding a New Job, Careers, Jobs, What to Do When You Get Fired, Fired, Finding a Job, Getting Fired, How to Find a New Job, Women News

By Kourtney Jason | Life2pointoh Getting fired isn’t just a shock, it’s a HUGE blow to your confidence. Along with the stress of finding a new ...

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PHOTOS: Hate Your Job? 12 Different Ways To Get Fired

Doug Savage | Posted 07.04.2011

Read More: Slidepollajax, Chickens, Unemployment, How to Get Fired, Getting Fired, Savage Chickens a Survival Kit for Life in the Coop, Savage, Books News

When I got sick of working overtime and getting migraines, I did what any sensible person would do: I started drawing chicken cartoons on sticky notes. Now you can harness the power of these cartoons to help you get rid of your pesky job.

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How To Move Forward When You've Been Let Go

Beth Weissenberger | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Career Advice, Fired, Self-Improvement, Losing a Job, Self Help, Getting Fired, Healthy Living News

After thoroughly following my steps, Jill landed a fantastic job within three months. She didn't have to borrow money or sell her house. She stopped thinking negatively and changed her outlook on her whole life.

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Charlie Sheen: 'Network 2011'?

Amy Spies | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charlie Sheen, Two and a Half Men, Network, Unemployment, Meltdown, Economy, Addiction, Jobs, Drugs, Mortage, Getting Fired, Move Star, Recession, Rehab, Mental Health, Celebrity, Spousal Abuse, Custody, Entertainment News

Just like the Network newscaster Howard Beale, Sheen felt unsupported and unappreciated by his network employer and lashed out. Beale had been coldly fired; Sheen felt he'd been dissed.

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Ten Minutes with: Rob Corddry

Fabio Periera | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's tough to find a job these days and, sometimes, tougher still to keep one. Just ask Rob Corddry, who has been fired from many, many jobs--and lost...

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If Only Irony Had a Privacy Setting

Jeffrey Evans | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Facebook Privacy Settings, Social Media, Facebook Privacy, Facebook Status, Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook Lawsuit, Facebook, Getting Fired, Privacy, Technology News

What I say and is said about me on Facebook and other social media sites needs to be confined to my network, not available to anyone interested enough to type my name into a search engine.

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Single Mom Fired From Job For Anonymous Sex Blog

Jennifer Hunt & Dan Baritchi | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Religion, Lifestyle Discrimination, Sexual Discrimination, Getting Fired, Work, Sexuality, Sex, Sex Blogging, Sex Blog, Career, Healthy Living News

How can someone be fired for something they do after working hours -- anonymously? Was she writing about her employer, her work, her colleagues, or her boss? No.

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Fashionably Late to Helping Haiti: A Feeble Attempt at Altruistic Redemption

Justine Harman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Healing Hands for Haiti, Ups, New York, Altruism, Haiti, Haiti Earthquake Relief, Live-Blogging, Fashion, Fashion Designers, Freebies, Getting Fired, Blogging, New York Fashion Week, Style News

The idea was simple enough. Starting tomorrow, February 5th at 8:00 pm EST, I am going to blog continuously for 48 hours about my favorite subject matter: Fashion.

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Losing Your Job And Learning What You're Made Of

Mika Brzezinski | Posted 07.19.2011

Read More: Fired, Unemployment, Working-Motherhood, Unemployment Rate, Working Mothers, Motherhood, Career & Money, Getting Fired, Business News

When you walk out the door after being fired, it's over. No cell phone. No email address. Nothing. Stripped of your link to the outside world. I wore my "fired" label on my forehead, having been dumped by CBS at the height of my career.

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Why Employer Relocation Packages Are Becoming As Extinct As Jobs: Times Are a Changing Unless You Work for Oprah That Is!

Stephen Viscusi | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women in the Workplace, Fired, Relocation Package, Relocation, Buy-Out, Workplace, Ny, Employment, Oprah, Jobs, Buyout, Harpo Productions, Getting Fired, Ibm, Job-Recession, New York, Recession, Armonk, Career Advice, Career, Business News

Relocation: if you can find it, is almost always worth it.

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The Silver Lining of Job Loss

Rick Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Job Losses, Job Loss, Career Advice, Careers, Fast Company, Getting Fired, Career Change, Recession, Business News

Personal evolution works best under conditions that most favor variation and change. It is your incompetence, not your successes, which often lead you to the path that is uniquely right for you.

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How I Lost My Job and Why I don't want it back

Jon Santiago | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Layoffs, Wall Street Layoffs, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Finance, Financial Crisis, Banks, Investment Banks, Banking Crisis, Bank Bailout, Getting Fired, Leaving Wall Street, Business News

I now think the "Main Street" perception of recklessness in the ivory towers of Wall Street, which initially struck me as too emotional and unfounded, is partially accurate.

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Fiscal Crisis Yoga

Lauren Cahn | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Fiscal Crisis, Yoga, Suffering, Happiness, Layoffs, Downsizing, Relationships, Job Cuts, Recession Anxiety, Dating, Getting Fired, Personal Debt, Personal Finance, Recession, Inner Peace, Healthy Living News

Understanding and accepting that bad things happen, that things won't always go our way, that people and events will disappoint us -- it's not pessimism. Rather, it's reality.

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