Fired Quotes

“Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Being fired has some of the advantages of dying without its supreme disadvantages. People say extra-nice things about you, and you get to hear them.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“Perhaps they never left the island when construction was complete," Otto replied.
Wing raised an eyebrow. "A true job for life."
"Or a life for a job," Otto countered. He wouldn't be at all surprised, given the emphasis on total secrecy, if H.I.V.E. offered an "aggressive" retirement package for lower-level employees. Here, being fired was probably a term that was taken a little too literally.”
― Mark Walden, H.I.V.E. Higher Institute of Villainous Education

“So many amazing opportunities arise when a chapter of our life ends. When we resign from a job that we weren't happy in, or even get fired, it's actually a blessing because a better experience is waiting to happen. It's all about perspective.”
― Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women

“I thought of all my rotten jobs and how glad I was to have them.
for a while.
then it was a matter of quitting or getting fired.
both felt good.”
― Charles Bukowski

“You never suffer nearly as much as you imagine you suffer. You never suffer the illnesses you most dread nor the miseries that you fear.”
― Osho, Bliss: Living beyond happiness and misery

“Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.”
― Kamand Kojouri

“Get fired, no one will call you a quitter.”
― Vikrmn, 10 Alone

“The upper management team had informed me that an employee that worked for me was a poor performer and would be terminated soon. This employee was clearly displaying mental health issues that were causing problems in the workplace. When I followed the company procedures and reported this to human resources, their response was to inform me that my contract would not be renewed and I would be immediately fired if anyone complained about me. This was my introduction to how mental health issues are handled in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.”
― Steve Jobs

“Someone who would bear my shock, reflect back my outrage, so I could see it better, feel more than this electric numbness.”
― Jennie Fields, The Middle Ages

“Tracey hurriedly shut the door behind her to prevent the flames that had been licking hungrily at her caboose all the way down the corridor, from following her inside. Then, almost falling into one of the gravity couches, she hurriedly strapped herself into it before punching the emergency release. She hoped the escape system still worked. It did. The explosive dead-bolts fired, shaking the pod loose, dislodging it from the rapidly disintegrating wreck, just about shaking the crap out of her on its bone-jarring way into the great wide open.”
― Christina Engela, Prodigal Sun

“I knew I should have been looking for a job, but just having lost one, I felt kind of unmotivated. Depressed. Useless. I couldn't even keep a job. What kind of loser can't even do a job well enough to just stay employed?”
― Craig R. Key, Counting Losses

“How many times you figure on firing me?"

Pat Rin yos'Phelium sighed. "Refresh my memory, Mr. McFarland. How many times have I succeeded in firing you thus far?”
― Sharon Lee, I Dare

“I had never been fired out of a job until I worked at the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea. Afterwards, I was either fired or harassed out of every job until I became so sick that I filed for disability. I later discovered that Mauna Kea is biologically toxic to the sea level adapted human.”
― Steven Magee

“Doctors rarely fix their patients health issues. Instead, the patient gets put on a toxic cocktail of prescription drugs for the rest of their life that typically makes them sicker. In engineering, if you could not fix broken systems, you would likely be fired.”
― Steven Magee

“Some of the greatest people in the USA are those that were illegally fired for blowing the whistle.”
― Steven Magee

“Protecting workers may get you illegally fired in the USA.”
― Steven Magee

“Managers will be forced to become entrepreneurs and directly responsible for above the line branding and below the line profits...or they will be fired.”
― Richie Norton

“Assume your job will be gone in five years.”
― Evan Thomsen, Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want

“If you do not engage in the illegal cover up, you will be fired for insubordination.”
― Steven Magee

“Being honest in Florida may get you fired!”
― Steven Magee

“It was a relief to leave the Desoto Solar Farm.”
― Steven Magee

“Shortly before I was fired, the company at the Desoto Solar Farm emailed me the legally required OSHA signs to install in my office. They had never been displayed for the duration of my employment with them.”
― Steven Magee

“Is Melania Trump going to say to President Trump: You’re fired!”
― Steven Magee