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Take Job For Granted, Get Fired

sterling@thesentmedia.com (Wil LaVeist) — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000

By Wil LaVeist

Columnist/Blogger

By now, with the unemployment rate at 9.6 percent, many of us know that losing a job can be devastating. I published my award-winning book, “Fired Up” after I was blindsided by a firing in 2006 before the recession kicked in the end of 2007. The book was therapeutic for me and continues to help many others who are in crisis. It has also enlightened employers on more humane ways to let people go.

But there are times when a firing is well earned, or a person should resign. Two news stories around the Labor Day weekend make this point.

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