Fired for Now: Getting fired, laid off, and hired again

I wasn’t expecting to see a connection between the film Milk and today’s unemployment issues.

Milk, of course, is the newly-released film about the life and death of Harvey Milk, a supervisor for the city of San Francisco during the 70s and America’s first openly-gay elected official. He was one of the gay rights movements’ most prominent heroes, and Time Magazine included Milk in its list of the top 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

Yet Milk served in office for only 11 months before being assassinated along with San Francisco … Continue Reading

Just this week, a 48-year-old man who worked in the imaging department of a hospital outside Anchorage, Alaska walked into the hospital a day after being fired and shot his direct supervisor and another senior employee. One was killed, the other is still in critical condition. The man himself was shot dead at the scene by state police.

Most people don’t shoot their former bosses after being fired. It’s not a good career move.

But I think I know what that man was feeling, even though I don’t have any fantasies of picking up a rifle or hand-gun and heading back to … Continue Reading