I just took three days off, so imagine my alarm when an e-mail shows up in my inbox today with this subject line: “Had a good vacation? Great. You’re fired.” Turns out it’s a news item from the AFL-CIO plugging its online legal resource for workers. Here, according to the union, are
Top Ten Strange But True Reasons Used to Fire Someone
1. Working too many hours
2. Blogging
3. Smoking
4. Holding a second job
5. Not asking the boss for permission to go on a date
6. Being hospitalized
7. Working fewer than 7 days a week
8. Working fewer than 100 hours a week
9. Taking a 5-minute break in the middle of a 10-hour shift
10. Not doing someone elses job along with your own.
Nice world, ain’t it?