Bernard Manning Quotes

Getting fired is what happens to a manager sooner or later.

I've never been fired in my life.

Many people have asked me how I feel about losing my job.

When I got fired, I had a feeling of loss because Viacom had been a passionate long-term relationship. But I got my balance back. I guess it's like getting jilted by a girlfriend, a serious girlfriend. You move on.

I was devastated by the loss of my job in March, although I can understand why it occurred.

There is no way I could ever look somebody in the eye and say that I can make them feel good about the fact that they are losing their job.

Liberals say we should end employment discrimination. I say we should end employment.

You can get fired from any job at any time.

In L.A., I worked as a bagger at a Ralphs for about two weeks. And I said, 'I just can't do that.' Not that it's a bad job. I would put the bread down and then the cans down on the bread, so I got fired. Or I just left. I'm not really sure which one happened.

The two words, in the American lexicon, are never good. Pink slip. The first time I ever heard it when I was young was when Kaiser Steel handed out pink slips to many of my neighbors and relatives. Layoffs were about efficiency, sales figures for raw materials or refrigerators.

The fear of being laid off next payday did as much damage as real unemployment.

I saw people get fired after their eviction. But when I found that if you get evicted, your chances of losing your job increase by 20 percent, that's when it really hit home for me.

My first real job lasted for three years. It ended the day I was unceremoniously fired.

I am naturally very disappointed to have lost my job but immensely proud to have served as Norwich City's manager.

When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one thing out of life: to become a writer.

I never quit. I just got fired.

The hardest thing for a chief executive to do is to tell someone that they don't have a job anymore.

Believe me, it's always a lot harder on the guy getting fired.

We had a lot to do with Randy being fired. If we were to do a lot better, then it probably wouldn't have happened.

There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.

I was a terrible employee. I've been fired from almost every job I've ever had, luckily, in a good way, or else I'd be stuck. I would always joke around with everybody, and no one enjoyed my humor.

I'd been a psychiatric social worker for 17 years, but within 24 hours after I started the case against studying reading Bible in school by my son, I was fired from my job as a supervisor in the city public welfare department. And I was unable to find another one. So my income was completely cut off.

I tell you that there are eighty-plus-year-old nudists cavorting on your property, Ashley O'Ballivan, and all you can do is laugh?

I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board.

If you hate your job, don't worry, you won't have it for long.