History Main / GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity

** While never explicitly threatened as often as the other two, but [[TheDitz Beauregard]] and [[CloudCuckooLander Gonzo]] had also been at risk of being fired

%%** There's also the episode where Kermit fires Miss Piggy.

** Or for looking at the boss funny, for being too fat, too skinny, too short (but never too tall for Wrestling/{{Vince McMahon}}!), screwing up a match's scripted finish just once, or getting into altercations with wrestlers backstage that are favored by the management.

Fortunately, a boss who'll fire you for such asinine reasons will also be just as capricious in his hiring, and the fired character often [[StatusQuoIsGod gets their job back anyway]], either [[ResetButton by the end of the episode]] or [[SnapBack by the start of the next one]]-- making the lack of job security more of a RunningGag than a real threat to their well-being.

** "We Are Never Alone": After a robot from another planet (actually [[spoiler:Robbie using a robot]] convinces Earl to care for the environment, he ends up quitting his job because WESAYSO is named the #1 biggest polluter. But after he finds out [[spoiler:that it was a trick to get him to care for the environment]], Earl runs to Mr. Richfield's office to see if he can get his job back, right when Richfield is about to give in, thinking Earl is there to make demands.

** In "Rogercop", the Mayor fires Officer Raincomprix (for not doing something blatantly illegal), but decides at the end of the chapter to rehire him with a higher rank. [[spoiler:Of course, as Raincomprix finds later on, the Mayor doesn't have the power to fire (or hire) him.

* Fred Flintstone from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' was also fired by Mr. Slate frequently, not surprising since the two shows are cousins of each other. But Mr. Slate rarely fired Flinstone without some good reason. In one Creator/CartoonNetwork [[https://youtu.be/FG4H-SvXzQE?t=9m15s station ID,]] Slate fired Fred, a mammoth, and the channel's logo in rapid succession.

* Taizo "Madao" Hasegawa of ''Manga/Gintama'' gains his nickname, which stands for "totally useless old man", due to his inability to hold down a job through the series.

* In the Creator/TimDorsey novel ''When Elves Attack'', Jim Davenport has made a career out of ''inducing'' this. His consulting firm is regularly hired by companies that want to justify massive unnecessary layoffs of qualified personnel in order to manipulate their stock prices. Then a few weeks later, the companies realize that they can't meet their business obligations after laying off a large portion of their manpower, so hire the same firm to act as a headhunter, at which point Jim rehires all the people he had just sacked.

* In ''ComicStrip/{{Blondie}}'', Dagwood is incompetent and falls asleep on the job while his boss is physically and verbally abusive. He has explicitly been shown a few times to only get his job back because their wives are good friends.

* ''Franchise/SpiderMan'': Peter Parker and J. Jonah Jameson, to the point that this could almost be the {{Trope Namer|s}}. Of course, JJJ would argue Parker's only a "freelancer", anyway (see the entry under Western Animation).

Bosses in the TV world have apparently never heard of such things as wrongful termination or hostile workplace lawsuits (or maybe they ''have'' heard of them, but were arrogantly dismissive of them because they are so confident it could ''never'' happen to them).[[note]] TruthInTelevision for much of the US, due to "at-will" employment laws allowing firing anyone for any reason or no reason; yet even in the worst such states (e.g. Florida) un-Constitutional firings still can be litigated. The difficulty is ''proving'' such. [[/note]] And neither has the poor employee, who will likely spend most his time dejectedly scanning the want ads while his concerned family looks on instead of planning some kind of legal recourse.

* In the final years of Vince [=McMahon=]'s reign, the WWE canned dozens of wrestlers, referees and crew, [[BlatantLies citing budget problems]] while [[MoneyDearBoy recording massive profits.]] Since becoming the WWE's head of both creative and talent relations in July 2022, Wrestling/TripleH has started bringing many of these fired employees back. One Reddit user quipped that if Vince's CatchPhrase was "You're Fired", Hunter's catchphrase could be "You're Rehired".

* Played with in ''Webcomic/TheTrenches''. One can get fired on perfectly reasonable ([[http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/industry-standard-methodology or unreasonable as the case may be]]) grounds, but thanks to [[PointyHairedBoss Credenza's little management quirks]], getting re-hired is as easy as [[http://trenchescomic.com/comic/post/reincarnation applying under a different name]] since they suspect the boss has face blindness. [[spoiler:Then "Rarley" he gets fired again, and the boss takes a photo of him and gives it to security with instructions not to let him in the building.]]

* Played with in the book ''Skunk Works'', about the crack engineering team of [[{{CoolPlane}} Coolplane-maker]]Lockheed, the author talks about his boss Kelly Johnson. Johnson would "fire" people every day for minor infractions. This was mostly to scare underperforming employees and for Johnson to let off steam. Johnson was the boss of the "Skunk Works" during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII and the first two decades of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar.

* Fred Flintstone from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' was also fired by Mr. Slate frequently, not surprising since the two shows are cousins of each other. In one Creator/CartoonNetwork [[https://youtu.be/FG4H-SvXzQE?t=9m15s station ID,]] Slate fired Fred, a mammoth, and the channel's logo in rapid succession.