September 2011
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Don't be so evil: A guide for bosses | The Chicago... →
Rex Huppke interviews Jill Morris about PleaseFireMe.com and the site’s book, hoping to find some answers about how to have a better workplace.
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Take This Job and Shove It | Reader's Digest →
Thanks Reader’s Digest for featuring our book Please Fire Me: Posts from the Revolting Workplace this month! Suggestion: The writer behind this gets tomorrow off.
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Workplaces are Getting Nastier | Toronto Star →
Healthzone, the Toronto Star’s wellness blog, interviewed PFM co-creator and co-author Jill Morris about her book Please Fire Me: Posts for the Revolting Workplace and what it means as a sign of the times. He says of PFM:
“While offing your manager [a la Horrible Bosses] may seem extreme, less impassioned but equally disgruntled employees are satisfying their killer instincts by...
August 2011
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It's Not The Job That Sucks, It's The People |... →
Business Insider, a leading business trends website, featured Meeting Boy’s review of our book Please Fire Me: Posts from the Revolting Workplace:
“The thing I like about the book is that it goes beyond the user submissions to the site. Sometimes it’s a rant…and sometimes it’s some cool new content, like the Myth of Bizyphus, or The Gifted Engine That Shouldn’t.”
July 2011
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"Horrible Bosses" Gets People Talking and Blogging... →
PopWork USA, a blog devoted to pop culture depictions of work and working families, looks at the reaction to “Horrible Bosses” around the internet, including Please Fire Me’s comedic article on The Huffington Post.
June 2011
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Books about lousy jobs based on site... →
The NY Daily News interviews Adam Chromy and Jill Morris about their book and website and writes:
“They collected their favorite posts into a book, illustrated them with graphics and organized the collection around a call to action. “It’s sort of like the time before the French Revolution,” he says. “If 1% of owners and bosses have all the fun and make all the money...
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The Grin Bin: 'Please Fire Me, Posts From the... →
A review of our book:
“Though hilarious, at times, the book feels a little too familiar, and we cringe to know this all actually happened to real people. But that, too, is acknowledged by the authors: as much as the idea of “revolution” is tongue-in-cheek, they never lose sight of the fact that real human beings are being degraded on a daily basis, and if they had it their way, the Please...
May 2011
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‘Please fire me': Dispatches from workplace hell... →
An extremely positive review of our book Please Fire Me: Posts from the Revolting Workplace:
“Even the most despondent of workers won’t be able to help cracking a smile at this collection of hilarious tales from the labor front.”
February 2011
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A Site For All Those People Who'd Like To Say... →
Pop Culture Passionistas, a blog for all things pop run by the Harrington sisters Amy and Nancy, gives us terrific and warm description:
“This is a service for the “malemployed” — the ever growing number of people who are stuck in jobs they absolutely hate. Those reasons can range from the absurd…To the seemingly inhumane. Visit the site, read away and be happy that the worst thing...
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A site for all those people that'd like to say... →
“Most people remain pessimistic about the job market. Sure unemployment rates fell to nine percent in January — dipping for the second straight month — but many analysts chalk that up to people simply dropping out of the work force all together. So as has been the case for a while, people who have jobs are staying put — whether they like it or not.
There is an outlet for the employment...
November 2010
5 posts
7 Sites You Should Be Wasting Time On Right Now |... →
Please Fire Me wins first place in this Huffington Post contest voted on by users.
You Should Vent Before You Quit | 100.3 Jack FM —... →
Popular radio station Jack FM broadcasts the news of PFM to its listeners by saying, “No matter how much you love what you do, someone or something can set you off and you just want to throw the deuces.
Well if you are smart, you won’t be silly enough to jeopardize the check that pays your bills. But having a place to vent anonymously will allow you to do so without the fear of...
Weekly Wrap: Seasonal Work Benefits, Job Perks... →
This HR-dedicated website puts the spotlight on PFM this week, telling all those who have a hellish day at work to stop by the site.
Friday Fun: Think you have it bad? Check out... →
This librarian’s popular blog, describes Please Fire Me as an online bitchfest for the malemployed and suggests it for those looking to “drive the doldrums” away.
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Website Love: Please Fire Me | The Observer of the... →
The Observer of the Vanities—a blog dedicated to design, culture, beauty and life—says that when she’s annoyed with her job, she hits up our site and lists her three favorite recent posts.
August 2010
3 posts
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Take This Job...Please! | Greenberg Rants →
A story about what ex-flight attendent Steven Slate’s dramatic exit off the airplane really meant and how it’s reflected on Please Fire Me by political blogger, Paul A. Greenberg.
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Quit This Job And Love It | Forbes →
An article in Forbes by Kiri Blakeley about JetBlue working-class hero Steven Slater that features Please Fire Me. Here’s a selection from her piece on the current state of the work environment, “The bleak job market means that most of us, no matter how miserable, sit around fantasizing about quitting rather than actually doing it. So when someone like Slater or “Jenny the...
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Please Fire Me, I Hate My Job | Manufacturing... →
A blog dedicated to careers in the production industry, Manufacturing Workers writes about why our recession-stricken society is turning to Please Fire Me. The blogger writers, “More and more, it seems that unhappy employees have no choice but to keep showing up at jobs that they can’t stand.”
March 2010
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From Website to Book Deal: PleaseFireMe.com |... →
From Galleycat, “PleaseFireMe.com has just sold the book rights to Citadel Press at auction. Citadel Press is the publisher of the New York Times bestselling book, I Hope They Sell Beer in Hell by Tucker Max.
Acquiring editor, Amy Pyle is said to envision it as a huge franchise. In fact, according to founder and co-author, Adam Chromy, she says, “When I first brought it up at our...
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It's okay, you can still gripe | American Public... →
American Public Media reaches 16.5 million listeners every week, making it the second largest producer of public radio in the nation.
APM’s host Scott Jaggow reports on Please Fire Me and opens by writing, “It’s become almost taboo to complain about your job, since you know, you’re lucky to have one. That doesn’t mean people who were unhappy at work have suddenly become happy. ...
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Light Friday: Unhappy Workers and their Bosses |... →
Writer David R. Butcher notices, “It seems that the down economy has had a degrading effect on some bosses’ abilities to manage in workplaces across the nation,” and sends disgruntled employees over to Please Fire Me. Industry Market Trends provides a place to research and comment on the latest industrial developments, best practices and market trends.
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Work zone: No thinking allowed | Times &... →
Times & Transcript, a daily newspaper published in Canada, reports on Please Fire Me. Journalist Alec Bruce comments, “We’re all too familiar with the unemployed and the under-employed. But we rarely hear much about the so-called ‘mal-employed’ — hapless victims of those routine workplace stupidities and indignities that sap the strength and crush the soul one...
Please Fire Me! | Alice 105.9 →
Slacker and Steve ask their listeners and readers, “Why do you want to get fired?”
Please | FM 99 WNOR →
This morning talk show based in Virginia helps spread the word about Please Fire Me on their blog and radio show.
Please Fire Me | Unemploymentality →
The definitive unemployment blog invites those without a job to cheer themselves up by checking out Please Fire Me.
February 2010
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Picozzi, Mary and Holden's Links | The Rock 106.9 →
The morning DJs on this rock radio station read some of Please Fire Me’s posts for their listeners.
From The Show This Morning... | Q108 Ryan &... →
Radio morning show hosts Ryan & Gretchen discuss Please Fire Me on the air.
Tumblr Blog Please Fire Me Is a Really Funny,... →
The L Magazine, a dynamic and comprehensive city guide for young New Yorkers, shares their favorite posts including: “Please fire me. My boss called a meeting and the number one point on the agenda was ‘Internet: friend, foe, is it here to stay?’”
Slip 'N Slide Faceplant | This Is Freaking... →
Blog and creator of the bacon gun This Is Freaking Ridiculous posts a link to Please Fire Me, letting their many readers know there is a place for them to submit when they can’t quit.
Coffee Break | The High Definite →
The High Definite, “created as a gateway from your droll, trivial, work existence”, adds Please Fire Me to their daily list of entertaining sites on Coffee Break.
Single Serving Tumblr of the Day | The Daily What →
The Daily What names Please Fire Me their “Single Serving Tumblr of the Day”.
Church of Lazlo Show on 96.5 The Buzz Kansas City,...
Please Fire Me | Flash News →
Flash News, a website providing of daily exclusive offbeat pop culture news items, sends their readers off to the weekend with Please Fire Me.
Web Sights Friday, February 19| NBC Chicago →
These morning newscasters let you know what’s new on the web before they send you off to work. Features Please Fire Me as well as reigning Speed Skating champion Sven Kramer.
Please fire me. | The Shelia Variations →
Literary blogger Sheila O’Malley, named Wall Street Journal’s “Best of the Web”, discovers Please Fire Me and writes, “It’s stuff like this, the universality of it, that made Joshua Ferris’s And Then We Came To the End such a powerful (and hilarious) book.”
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The Missing Links: The Best of the Web for... →
Details does their weekly roundup of the best sites on the web and includes a nice link to Please Fire Me.
The Weekly Six – 2.19.10 | Tyler Stanton →
Popular humor blogger Tyler Stanton, who aims to “entertain inclusively”, awards Please Fire Me “Favorite Website” in The Weekly Six.
“It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only... →
Smart Pretty and Awkward, a popular blog with daily tips on how to be smarter, prettier, and less awkward, says Please Fire Me will make your workplace feel less awkward.
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Conversating and Closing, Always! “Submit if You... →
According to their site: “E-Verse Radio is not just a blog. It is also an arts and opinion TV and radio show accompanied by an electronic newsletter.” Well, their awesome “more than a blog” wrote a nice post about us. They picked your malemployment submissions that resonated most, then asked readers, “Any of these encounters with fatuous, sub-literate office dwellers...
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Please Fire Me - Why You Hate The Job You Can't... →
Urlesque, a blog that “exposes bits of the web”, playfully exposes Please Fire Me. They close their piece with a fun bit in which they combine their favorite posts into one terrible office.
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Please Fire Me | Newsweek →
Newsweek discusses the title of Please Fire Me in this short online write-up.
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Compare: Please Fire Me | Thrillist →
A fun blurb about Please Fire Me on Thrillist, one of the most popular blogs to visit when you are looking for new entertainment.
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Record Breaking Numbers Of Americans Hate Their... →
The Huffington Post takes interest in Please Fire Me, citing an ABC News story for the site’s popularity: “Even Americans who are lucky enough to have work in this economy are becoming more unhappy with their jobs, according to a new survey that found only 45 percent of Americans are satisfied with their work. That was the lowest level ever recorded by the Conference Boa.”
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Dissatisfied Employees| National Post →
National Canadian newspaper National Post invites their readers to vent on Please Fire Me and enjoy fellow disgruntled workers’ funny posts.
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Please Fire Me! One Hilarious Website | A Writer's... →
A Writer’s Grove, a website about the book publishing industry and the entertainment business, is “screaming with laughter” over your submissions.
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Please, Fire Me! | Mediabistro →
Galleycat, “the first word on the book publishing industry”, writes about Please Fire Me on Mediabistro.
January 2010
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Please Fire Me: Hate on the Job You Can’t Leave |... →
Named one of the top ten business blogs, Business Pundit joins in on the fun and shares some of their favorite posts from your submissions.
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Awesome Blog Alert: Please Fire Me | Save The... →
Save the Assistants, a blog for the beleaguered”, recommends Please Fire Me to their large following of administrative warriors.