Stories tagged "fired"

Official who managed the Pentagon's largest contract in Iraq says he was fired when he would not approve over $1 billion in questionable charges.

Some of his audience didn’t like what he wrote. They were his bosses. He was fired.

Toiling away in a cubicle all day can be boring during a slow holiday week, believe me—I know. So it is no surprise that employees will often turn to office toys in an attempt to get to 5 p.m. without doing any actual work. Sounds like a great idea...

Four US police officers will be fired and four others disciplined after they were caught on video beating three suspects.

Unrest has spread throughout the Fort Worth Independent School District after more than 500 teachers received letters telling them they were terminated from their jobs.

"Dilbert," the newspaper comic that routinely ridicules self-important office managers, is taking aim this week at an Iowa company that fired an employee for posting a "Dilbert" strip in the office.

How one little girl-talk changed my whole career!

LAND O' LAKES - The telephone call that spelled the end of Jim Piculas' career as a substitute teacher in Pasco County came on a January day about a week after he performed the disappearing-toothpick ...

A 36-year-old waitress at an Owen Sound, Ont., restaurant lost her job this week after she shaved her head to raise money for a cancer charity.

CNN has fired television producer Chez Pazienza for blogging without the consent of the network. Come on...how ridiculous is that? They said their employee handbook states he should have had CNN approve his posts...