{"id":9857,"date":"2010-02-18T18:05:47","date_gmt":"2010-02-18T23:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9857"},"modified":"2013-02-01T12:53:44","modified_gmt":"2013-02-01T17:53:44","slug":"please-fire-me-my-boss-just-came-into-my-cube-and-asked-me-how-my-internship-is-going-ia%c2%80%c2%99m-not-an-intern-and-never-was-one-for-this-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9857","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Please fire me. My boss just came into my cube and asked me how my internship is going.  I&#8217;\u0080\u0099m not an intern and never was one for this company.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dying to be fired?  Don&#8217;t want to quit?  Just submit your reasons here to <a href=\"http:\/\/pleasefireme.com\/\">Please Fire Me<\/a>.  Whatever your reason, scroll through all the entries (I have been guffawing with laughter), and you will realize you are not alone.  It&#8217;s stuff like this, the universality of it, that made Joshua Ferris&#8217;s <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/031601639X?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=thesheivari-20&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=031601639X\">And Then We Came To the End<\/a><\/i> such a powerful (and hilarious) book.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please fire me. The new sales guy will not stopping leaning in through my office door and air guitaring Led Zeppelin, his favorite all time band.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please fire me. At customer service training, the HR woman leading the session responded to a comment about playing to one\u00e2\u0080\u0099s strengths with, &#8216;Well it\u00e2\u0080\u0099s like that old saying: \u00e2\u0080\u0098Onto\u00e2\u0080\u00a6thyself\u00e2\u0080\u00a6whatever.\u00e2\u0080\u0099&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Please fire me. Our HR girl overheard me describing the plot of The Road to a co-worker. You know, the book about survivors of nuclear Armageddon who are being chased across a deserted America by anarchist cannibals. She asked, &#8216;Was that based on a true story?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t Quit.  <a href=\"http:\/\/pleasefireme.com\/\">Just Press Submit<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dying to be fired? Don&#8217;t want to quit? Just submit your reasons here to Please Fire Me. Whatever your reason, scroll through all the entries (I have been guffawing with laughter), and you will realize you are not alone. It&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=9857\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[2134],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62416,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9857\/revisions\/62416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}