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Computer: Why was you sacked from Radio One?
Kenny Everett: Oh blimey, I’ll have to run through a past-catalogue of horror. Yeah, it was for insulting some politician. Oh, the Transport Minister’s wife. Star Test, 1989
You should all be held accountable for what you’ve done. You should all be fired. Nigel Farage, to European parliament
I like being able to fire people who provide services to me. Mitt Romney, corporate raider
When post boys get into trouble they sack the servants. Dennis Skinner
Boss: You are fired! Get out!
Mandy: All right. Fine. I’ll get me coat. You owe me for an hour and a half. Mandy s1e4: Fish, BBC 2020
The oil companies were anti-union, and anyone involved in union activity could find themselves on a one-way ticket home ... But some oil workers were starting to want their own union. Crude Britannia: The Story of North Sea Oil 2/3, BBC 2009
But OILC never achieved across-the-board union recognition. The cost of the industrial action was high, around 1,000 contract workers were sacked and blacklisted. The strikes cost the operations £200 million. ibid.
6,000 SACKED PRINT WORKERS: SOGAT AUEW HGA NUJ UNITED WE WILL WIN. Wapping protest banner
One of the most high-profile and violent industrial disputes of the mid ’80s was Wapping. Rupert Murdoch had sacked 5,000 of his workers and moved production of The Sun, The Times & The Sunday Times to a new high-tech plant in Wapping, East London. Lefties III: A Lot of Balls, BBC 2006
They do have the power to act together. I think back to the time when Rupert Murdoch moved his operation in London to his fortress in East London called Wapping when everything changed. It was a sea-change. In the process he sacked five thousand people just like that. The journalists almost didn’t go. The vote was lost in the union ballots by about half a dozen. Now, had they voted not to go, I doubt whether that embodiment of everything that Murdoch stands for would ever have got off the ground. So journalists do have power. And it’s really up to them to organise that power. John Pilger, interview Melbourne 2009
In 1986 the equivalent of an earthquake hit Fleet Street. Rupert Murdoch had been secretly preparing to move his newspapers to a factory in Wapping in East London surrounded by guards and razor-wire. When he finally made his move he sacked more than five-thousand people. John Pilger, Breaking the Mirror: The Murdoch Effect
Fired from the Satanic Temple for being too extreme. Hail, Satan? ex-communicated woman who called for execution of president, 2019
You’re fired. Citizen Kane 1941 starring Orson Welles & Joseph Cotten & Everett Sloane & Dorothy Comingore & Agnes Moorehead & Ruth Warrick & Ray Collins & William Alland & Paul Stewart & Philip van Zandt et al, director Orson Welles, Charles to Jed
I don’t like firing people. It’s not a pleasant thing and it’s sad … In some cases, it’s a terrible, terrible situation for the person who gets fired, how strongly they take it. So it’s not something that any rational or sane person can love doing, but it also happens to be a fact of life in business. Donald Trump, cited Boston Herald 7th January 2004 & Lawrence ‘According to Trump’
You’re fired! The Apprentice TV series US & UK
If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. Vince Lombardi
What are people going to do? Fire me? I’ve been fired before. Not book me? I’ve been out of work before. I don’t care. Joan Rivers
Her [Sarah Palin] pre-election promises to fire people who didn’t support her [for Mayor]. Nick Broomfield, Sarah Palin: You Betcha! 1991
Jeffrey: I got fired this morning …
Liane: What are we supposed to do? What about our medical coverage? What about our health? What about our car payments? Payments on this house? … The Insider ***** 1999 starring Al Pacino & Russell Crowe & Christopher Plummer & Diane Venora & Michael Gambon & Rip Torn & Philip Baker Hall & Lindsay Crouse & Debi Mazar & Renee Olstead et al, director Michael Mann
You are done. Fired. Do not show your face at the laundry again. Breaking Bad s4e11: Crawl Space, Gus to Walter, AMC 2011
Santa in Sack Rumour. Spitting Image s3e17, Daily Hark front page, ITV 1986
We’re fired. Really? Hotel Coolgardie ***** pub owner, Amazon 2016