
Richland County Sheriff Leon Lott fired Senior Deputy Ben Fields, and said he overreacted when he was attempting to discipline a recalcitrant student at Spring Valley High School. Video footage of the classroom tussle went viral on Monday, prompting an FBI investigation and calls for Fields to be fired.
by William Bigelow28 Oct 2015, 11:00 AM PST0

On Tuesday, a nationally recognized teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District was fired in a unanimous vote by the Los Angeles Board of Education after a joke about Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn led to a broader investigation.
by William Bigelow15 Oct 2015, 11:36 AM PST0

A Taco Bell employee in Sandusky, Ohio, lost his job after a photo showing him with his hands down his pants at work surfaced online.
by Warner Todd Huston24 Sep 2015, 8:24 PM PST0

Former tennis star James Blake, once ranked fourth in the world, is calling for the NYPD officer who mistook him for a thief and body-slammed him to the ground to be fired.
by William Bigelow13 Sep 2015, 7:55 PM PST0

The L.A. Times is still bleeding employees this week with the announcement of a third high-placed staffer leaving the paper.
by Warner Todd Huston10 Sep 2015, 7:13 PM PST0

On August 15, KSTP reported that the Jimmy John’s sandwich shop in Edina, Minnesota, fired an employee who refused to serve a police officer who wanted to buy a sandwich.
by AWR Hawkins17 Aug 2015, 6:56 PM PST0

New York City’s human resources administration fired an employee but had a hard time reaching him, because he had been dead since last December.
by William Bigelow9 Aug 2015, 4:46 PM PST0

Adam Smith, who once made $200,000 per year as a CFO, claims that after he was fired for uploading a video in which he yelled at a Chick-fil-A employee for the company’s opposition to gay marriage, he hasn’t been able to find a job, and he, his wife, and their four children have had to subsist on food stamps.
by William Bigelow30 Mar 2015, 4:11 AM PST0

Two panel judges on New Zealand’s X Factor were fired early this week for crudely berating a contestant, and now peers and fans seem to have drawn up an assessmentof their careers: they’re finished.
by Kipp Jones18 Mar 2015, 3:50 PM PST0

Two judges on New Zealand’s X Factor, a televised singing competition, have been fired for crudely berating a contestant.
by Kipp Jones15 Mar 2015, 8:29 PM PST0

The Media Research Center’s new poll confirms the outrage of Americans over Brian Williams’ web of deceit. The poll found that 66.1% of the 1,007 respondents thought that Williams should have been fired rather than NBC’s decision to suspend him without pay.
by William Bigelow20 Feb 2015, 11:08 AM PST0