Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
Downsizing budgets may be necessary, but downsizing dreams is a decision to be disappointed.
In practice, downsizing is too often about cutting your work force while keeping your business the same, and doing so not by investments in productivity-enhancing technology, but by making people pull 80-hour weeks and bringing in temps to fill the gap.
Downsizing itself is an inevitable part of any creatively destructive economy.
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.
Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.
There's nothing wrong with being fired.
If you don't win, you're going to be fired. If you do win, you've only put off the day you're going to be fired.
It is our duty still to endeavor to avoid war; but if it shall actually take place, no matter by whom brought on, we must defend ourselves. If our house be on fire, without inquiring whether it was fired from within or without, we must try to extinguish it.
I mean, there's no arguing. There is no anything. There is no beating around the bush. 'You're fired' is a very strong term.
You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.
In this remarkable time for the world, I refuse to believe it's time to stop believing in the possibilities of our remarkable country. I refuse to accept the downsizing of the American Dream. I refuse to bet against American entrepreneurial spirit and American ingenuity.The competition's tough, and it requires us to be tougher - tough-minded, never hard hearted.
I am still in shock and awe at being fired.
The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.
My agent said, "You aren't good enough for movies." I said, "You're fired."
Every time you walk down the street people are screaming, 'You're fired!'
Okay, well, I guess I'm still a kid. Because when I get really angry and fired up and I feel like my back is up against the wall, I will say vicious things.
Actually, I began to think that maybe there is a god, after all. Or maybe its a different one. The old one got fired.
Managers tend to treat organizations as if they are infinitely plastic. They hire and fire, merge, downsize, terminate programs, add capacities. But there are limits to the shifts that organizations can absorb.
I don't even like firing people. I don't think I've ever said, 'You're fired' to anybody.
It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.
I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.
Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.
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