"Next thing I knew, they fired me". Today, at 53, Mr. Maxwell lives on a $44,000 annual pension in a two-bedroom bungalow in the hills outside the Hawaiian capital.
Well, yeah, I don't work here any more because Aol fired me last year.
It was the reason AOL fired me last year, after they invested in my venture fund CrunchFund.
"My truck's in a ditch, my boss fired me today, my wife left me for my best friend" all conjure up images in the listener's mind.
Were Steve Forbes to fire me tomorrow, I'd sell my inflated California house once owned by a Stanford electrical engineering professor and move to Madison, Missoula or Moscow (the one in Idaho) and buy a house for cash with my California funny money.
"When they fired me in 1990, I think that's the last time," Johnson said.
Reuters has fired me, effective today.
"She fired me on 9 January 2005 and said she couldn't trust me any more," says Field. "She was convinced, and in a way you can't blame her.
He fired me one fall day in 1984, in the lobby of the Washington Hilton after I laughed at a joke someone made about him.
We now know LSU tried to fire me in Jan 2006.
But we recently were able to get access to documents which show that LSU tried to fire me in 2006 before Team Louisiana (the levee investigation led by Van Heerden and funded by the Louisiana Dept of Transportation) had really done most of its work.
