Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
There's no backlog of people we can fire for no reason and act as if they don't exist.
State and federal laws protect whistle-blowers, those who refuse to do something illegal, and workers who file claims for workers' compensation.
You never ask why you've been fired because if you do, they're liable to tell you.
In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.
The next day I was put on paid leave from my new job at Louisiana State University. This is very painful to me, though once again I understand the circumstances in which my employers find themselves in light of these actions taken against me.
It causes me great pain to sue the company I work for. Nevertheless, I had to do it. Suffice it to say, there's a dispute and I believe I haven't been given what is mine.
But isn't there something wrong when I'm the only guy in the country that got fired for 9/11?
After my dismissal, I received nothing in writing from Cricket Australia, no contact, and no payment at all, not even of my basic leave pay, until I was forced to bring in lawyers to assist in the process.
Sadly, most labor attorneys will advise you not to say you're wrong to anyone, because that might lead them to have something they can use to sue you.
And then ESPN fired me. I did not think that was a fitting punishment.
They're either going to fire you or they're not. They can only fire you. That's all they can do. They can't take your thumbs.
The Supreme Court told me that I should have filed a complaint within six months of the company's first decision to pay me less even though I didn't know about it for nearly two decades.
