"Anytime someone felt the need to move on to a different era in life," says Booker, "they would say they had gotten their '
walking papers'.
Booker's a prize catch
It also seems unlikely that the tens of thousands of employees slated to get their
walking papers in the next year -- from Bear Stearns, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, et al -- are going to give up finance and start waiting tables.
Hedging for office space
visit from unwanted guests on August 8, and so he gave them their
walking papers.
Turn of events
Paulson's critics should take solace in the precedent of Paul O'Neill, a former administration Treasury secretary who publicly disagreed with Bush on global warming and came away with nothing but his
walking papers.
A green for Treasury?
If the rancor builds to a crescendo and Pischetsrieder is handed his
walking papers, it may be in the best interest of everyone in Detroit to burn up the phone lines to Wolfsburg and urge Bernhard to return to the U.S., where he'd worked for five years.
The return of Bernhard?
Among the public, 35% of respondents approved of his job performance, and 52% said Bush should give Rumsfeld his
walking papers.
Majority Favours Rumsfeld's Exit
Among those given
walking papers was center director Ambler Moss Jr., a former U.S.
Pink slipped
"In one case, I was supported publicly, but given my
walking papers privately." He also remembers vividly walking into a meeting on business ethics, only to find "that one of the guys I fired was one of the speakers."
Financial execs who do the right thing
When the company handed him his
walking papers last year (at a time when BellSouth CEO Duane Ackerman raked in about $28 million in pay and stock options), Hill decided not to serve as anybody's financial footstool again.
Team defense: when corporate downsizing eliminated his job, this sales manager decided to beat the big companies at their own game. (Strength in Numbers)
Rajoub tells Reuters he has met Arafat after getting his
walking papers and told him he was not demanding reinstatement but that it was "a big mistake to appoint this new chief for many reasons, which I presented to him".
PALESTINE - July 8 - Rajoub Urges Arafat To Re-Consider His Successor
The next day, one-third of LTV's corporate staff received
walking papers, including the manager of employee communication.
Looking from the outside in: your job is communicating change. So how do you handle it when change has put you out of a job?
After some pointed exchanges, Mona gives the indecisive Paul his
walking papers, not altogether willingly.
Inga-Britt Wik: Vilken drom hon har: Fyra berattelser
The demise of seemingly solid e-companies such as Pets.com and eToys has investors and Wall Street running for cover--not to mention the thousands of employees who were handed their
walking papers.
Life After DotBomb
A Pulitzer Prize-winning editor whose work has long graced the editorial pages of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette and other newspapers, Greenberg was given his
walking papers shortly after the station asked him to provide a conservative counterpoint to liberal commentator John Brummett.
FIRST PERSON
Nader pointed out that the protesters were in the long tradition of social activism that "dates back to the time Americans gave George III his
walking papers, to the abolition of slavery, to the movement for women's right to vote, to the farmers', populist, and progressive movements, to the industrial and mining workers' efforts to form trade unions, to the civil rights movement, the environmental movement, and the workers' health movement."
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