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 long day at a time. Maybe, these poor saps are invisible precisely because they’re so numerous (a forest-for-the-trees proposition).”