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->'''M:''' I knew it was too early to promote you.
->'''James Bond:''' Well I understand Double-0's have a very short life expectancy, so your mistake will be short-lived.
-->-- ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''

There's a job opening, and the position looks very desirable, at least on paper. But it's hard. So hard that no one lasts long. Many quit before the day is over. Many quit without waiting to take the money. Many quit while screaming, without looking where they're fleeing, and then spent the rest of their life muttering "Twenty bucks an hour" [[MadnessMantra over and over and over again]]. In some cases, they never even got a chance to quit, instead dying in the course of their duties or [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch a suspicious accident]].

In some cases, the difficulty isn't with the job itself, but with the [[BadBoss viciousness]] and/or [[PointyHairedBoss stupidity]] of the boss. This may cause the character to be [[GeorgeJetsonJobSecurity fired]] or even [[YouHaveFailedMe killed]] for failing to satisfy the boss's unreasonable demands.

Usually the "no one can hack it" circumstances are shown by a montage of characters of different types attempting the task before leaving. Some of these may be [[ShoutOut Shout Outs]] to recognisable characters who would be good at the task at hand... but not quite good enough.

This is commonly used for nannies, teachers, or babysitters to [[BabysittersNightmare unruly children]], to show how horrible the children are. Alternatively, it's the secretary to an utterly unreasonable boss. This is a common setup (or sometimes reveal) for a NewJobEpisode, showing the previous failures at the task, warning the characters of the horror they face.

As a rule, if the new employee is not a main character, we'll see ''how'' the job is so horrible, and even this "hard to crack" character will eventually fail to the nightmare that is the task.

But if the new employee is a major character, they'll be a little bit different. Perhaps they have a warm heart and honest demeanour that will soften the hardest heart. Or perhaps she'll be the first to turn around and tear their PointyHairedBoss down as vengeance for all the previous employees.

(When this happens to the cast or crew of a show or group, it's LongRunnerCastTurnover, RevolvingDoorCasting, DeadEndJob, or RevolvingDoorBand.)

Since a lot of these "resignations" end with the death of a character, '''beware of spoilers'''.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* PlayedForDrama in ''Manga/ChainsawMan'': The division of the Japanese government department for hunting devils known simply as Public Safety is a revolving door of agents. As the lowest-ranked division that fights strong devils and [[MeaningfulName the first line of defense against ones that directly attack civilians and bystanders]], it's full of agents who find themselves in over their heads. Public Safety agents typically get promoted from divisions that take on weak, mostly harmless devils before they become threats, and as a result, [[AnyoneCanDie these agents very frequently die in the line of duty]], or voluntarily quit after a short time, because they didn't realize the enormous danger their jobs have suddenly put them in. Except for Denji and Power, those who ''do'' remain seem to suffer from varying levels of PTSD, not to mention physically degrade themselves using PowerAtAPrice. Kishibe, the agency's greatest agent, says Public Safety agents have to be crazy to take their jobs and ''[[SuccessThroughInsanity even crazier]]'' to survive them.
* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'':
** Everyone who tried to teach the class Eikichi Onizuka was assigned to was driven mad, with one in particular joining a cult.
** Inverted later on. When he needs money fast, he takes on a job "tuna fishing" -- [[spoiler:picking up the bits of people that get run over by trains]]. ''He'' doesn't last long.
* ''Anime/KnightHunters'': Kritiker personnel in general have a very high mortality rate. The protagonists go through three direct superiors and four [[TheHandler handlers]] over the course of the series, and they themselves are something like the fourth incarnation of Weiss, the members of the previous incarnations having either been killed or gone AxCrazy. In the last episode of ''Glühen'', Rex discusses forming a ''fifth'' incarnation of the team.
* ''Manga/{{Noragami}}'': Yato's ''[[EquippableAlly shinki]]'' quit so fast that the ''shinki'' who quit in the first episode lasted for three whole months, which impresses another god's shinki. Apparently it's due to Yato not being able to provide for their daily needs, being a homeless unknown minor deity who doesn't even have a shrine. He also apparently doesn't smell very pleasant and the ''shinki'' complain of his sweaty hands.
* In ''Manga/{{Remote}}'', the Unsolved Crimes Division, Special Unit A is renowned for this, as Inspector Himuro puts a lot of strain on his legwork partner with his special quirks and demanding personality. The heroine and newest legwork partner, Ayaki, despite being a PluckyGirl, nearly breaks down and resign from the post several times at the beginning of the series, until she gets used to the job and to Himuro's personality.
* In ''Manga/TheRoyalTutor'', one of the princes mentions (quite triumphantly) that he and his brothers have managed to scare away dozens of tutors before their father brought Heine in.
* ''Manga/VladDraculea'': The narration in Chapter 1 states that Wallachia has seen thirty-two voivodes in a single century due to its geopolitical instability as a small nation between two powerful ones, the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Hungary.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]
* This is the case with Head's manservants in ''ComicBook/TheAmazingScrewOnHead''.
* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' was proverbial for this until the modern era for having an expanding constantly shuffling roster, especially in the opening ten years or so. The complaints people had about ''Avengers Disassembled'' and ''New Avengers'' changing rosters suddenly and dramatically were par for the course. Jarvis reflects on this in ''The Avengers #280'' (written by Creator/RogerStern) where he's hospitalized after the events of ''Under Siege'':
--> '''Jarvis''': "There have been so many Avengers over the years. Some stayed so briefly, it is hard to even remember them. Hercules, the Beast, the Falcon, Hellcat, poor Ms. Marvel...I tried to serve them all well, to make their stays as pleasant as possible. After all. The life of an Avenger is not easy."
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': Gotham seems to have a new mayor every other issue. The job seems to exist in a nasty little sweet spot of being significant enough to make good supervillain fodder, while not actually being important enough to ''keep alive'' or be a consistent character. Generally speaking, if an established character takes the job, [[PlotArmor they have a much higher chance of staying in office for multiple issues or leaving office alive]]; if not, they're little more then a RedShirt. That's when mayors aren't being exposed as corrupt or criminals…
* ''ComicBook/TheDefenders'' has an even greater turnover rate then the Avengers. Though it's mostly remembered for featuring ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, ComicBook/DoctorStrange, ComicBook/SilverSurfer, and ComicBook/SubMariner, this lineup has never lasted long, and the team's lineup changes and shifts pretty much constantly from run to run. Chances are, if you can name a B-to-C-list Marvel hero who was active during the 70s and 80s, they were probably a member of the Defenders at some point. Part of the reason for this is that a conceit of ''Defenders'' was TeethClenchedTeamwork and a general lack of unity aside from focusing on weird or mystical challenges, which meant characters could regularly quit or join.
* ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'':
** The office of Chief Judge (pretty much the dictator of Mega City One) has seen a pretty high turnover rate since the start of the comic, with many not being in office for more than five years tops. Several Chief Judges have been murdered or committed suicide during their terms. Perhaps this is one of the reasons why Judge Dredd himself has always refused the big seat. For now, at least, Chief Judge Logan seems to have stuck.
** Averted by Psi-Division, which has had Judge Shenker in charge for over twenty years.
* A heroic example, the Wreckers from various ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}'' continuities tend to burn through their roster rather quickly. Sometimes, your first day as a Wrecker is also your last. In one piece of tie-in fiction for ''ComicBook/TheTransformersLastStandOfTheWreckers'', we're given an estimated fatality rating for the Wreckers, which due to a complicated situation involving two members is either 38% or 42% depending on whether Rack'n'Ruin count as separate people. The rating has increased since then.
* In ''ComicBook/TransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye'' the Lost Light can't seem to hold down a Director of Security, to the point that it almost comes off like a dark RunningGag. Red Alert, Fortress Maximus, Ultra Magnus, and Trailcutter have all held the position so far, and of those four only one is still on the ship and he stepped down from it. The others have either left it or died.
** Mnemosurgeons, people who can view and alter a Cybertronian's memories, are also prone to this, though in this case it's due to the fact that the process tends to give them PTSD and even ''kill'' them if they practice it enough.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* ''Fanfic/TheBlackSheepDogSeries'': Sirius's parents have dismissed many of their nursemaids when they fail to keep the boys' behaviour in check--which is often, considering Sirius wild and mischievous temperament. They can go through around four nursemaids within a single autumn, and would have fired the latest one if not for Alphard's interference.
* In ''Fanfic/ChasingDragons'', the position of Westeros' Master of Whispers is highly unstable during Stannis' reign. This is mostly due to each holder either resigning or being fired after failing to foresee one or another of the various rebellions that have popped up during the early years of the new dynasty. It's gotten to the point that people think the job's hexed.
* ''Fanfic/CheatingDeathThoseThatLived'':
** The position of Head Gamemaker is not known for its job security. If even one thing about the Games displeases the President enough, the blame falls on the Head Gamemaker's shoulders, quickly followed by (usually painful) execution. In fact, the only known Head Gamemakers known ''not'' to have suffered a YouHaveFailedMe-fate are those who pulled a {{Cincinnatus}} routine, Crane's predecessor Grizelda (who instead dies after her secrets are exposed by Finnick on live television), and Odysseus Toot, who managed a string of (perceived) successful Games by sheer dumb luck, with any faults falling on the shoulders of others. Understandably, he quit while he was ahead and retired from the position after his fifth Hunger Games.
** This goes for the position of Gamemaker in general, really. If the blunder is ''really'' bad, the President won't just go for the Head Gamemaker but for the entire staff under them as well. Considering how many are killed over the course of the story, it makes one wonder why any of the Capitolites still want the job.
* Being a prosecutor in ''Fanfic/DirtySympathy'', as the Prosecutor Office realized that they lose their prosecutors by them either quitting or [[AmoralAttorney getting arrested for some crime]]. They don't have much hope for Klavier to the point of betting when and how he going to leave. [[spoiler: Inverted that Klavier ''does'' leave his position when he and Apollo's crimes are nearly exposed.]]
* The Kingsguard in ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSevenKingdoms'' has it worse than the one in [[Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire the books]]: one has been dismissed, another is a prisoner and at least five have died in less than a year.
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Rango}}'' discovers that the position of sheriff of the town of Dirt is like this, complete with a brief shot of a cluster of graves in the town cemetery.
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* ''Film/AddamsFamilyValues'': The family go through nannies at such a rate, the agency finally suggests they get a Dobermann instead. The one nanny who can handle Pugsley and Wednesday [[spoiler: is a BlackWidow after Uncle Fester's money, and the general hardiness of the Addamses drives even her AxCrazy -- well, Ax Crazier]].
%%* The main premise behind ''Film/TheDevilWearsPrada''.
* The live-action ''Film/{{Casper}}'' movie. The villainess Carrigan brings in a priest (specifically, Father Guido Sarducci from Saturday Night Live), ''[[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} Ray Stantz]]'' and even a wrecking crew. Eventually, the protagonist's father, a psychic psychiatrist, is contacted to try and exorcise the house.
* In ''Film/DirtyHarry'', it's mentioned that Harry works alone because he tends to go through partners at an alarming rate; this trend holds true as the series progresses through 5 movies (3 dead, 2 seriously injured). On the positive side, it's mentioned in the first film that only a few of his partners actually get killed, with most only being seriously injured or simply finding his {{Jerkass}} CowboyCop attitude difficult to work with and transferred to other responsibilities.
* In ''Film/TheEmpireStrikesBack'', Darth Vader goes through several commanding officers, often [[YouAreInCommandNow promoting the person under them in the process]]. One amusing scene has him force strangle the elderly Admiral Ozzel who [[YouHaveFailedMe had failed him]] while talking with his ship's Captain, Piett. As the admiral gasps his last, Vader says, "YouAreInCommandNow, ''Admiral'' Piett." Piett's face is priceless as he doesn't know whether to look grateful or worried. His first command is to then have his predecessor's body removed.
* At the beginning of ''Film/{{Gettysburg}}'', Buster Kilrain tells Chamberlain that their Corps commander, George Meade, has been promoted to head of the entire Army of the Potomac, "[[LampshadeHanging The latest as they go by if you're keeping track]]". That joke was TruthInTelevision, see the RealLife example below.
* ''Film/GoodWillHunting'': The therapists Will Hunting goes through before Robin Williams comes along.
* The ''Franchise/JurassicPark'' franchise can be resumed in a single question Owen ask to a new employee: "You ever wonder why there was a job opening?"...just after the poor dude is almost turned into raptor snack...
* In Creator/WaltDisney's ''Film/TheHappiestMillionaire'', the Biddle family have a very hard time keeping house staff, mainly due to Mr. Biddle's penchants for keeping alligators in the conservatory and hosting mixed Boxing/Bible study classes. The only people they seem to be able to hold onto consistently throughout the movie are butler John Lawless and housekeeper Mrs. Worth.
* Each ''Film/LakePlacid'' movie has a different sheriff than the last one although only one sheriff actually dies in the series and only the second movie has the excuse of a long TimeSkip between films.
%%* Film/MaryPoppins.
* ''Franchise/MenInBlack'': it's implied that no-one stays K's partner for long, which is why he spends the first movie training J as a ''replacement'', who neuralizes him the same way K did his last partner at the start of the movie. By ''II'', a dissatisfied J has started dismissing and neuralizing his own partners so quickly the boss is getting annoyed.
* In the ''Film/MissionImpossibleFilmSeries'', the leader of the IMF is a different person in each film, usually played by a prominent actor (notably Anthony Hopkins, Lawrence Fishburne, Tom Wilkerson, and [[spoiler: Alec Baldwin]]). The position appears to be political in nature (akin to a cabinet secretary), so given the 4-6 year gap between each film, it is plausible that the position changes every election cycle or so.
* ''Film/MorningGlory'': Becky Fuller (Rachel [=McAdams=]) is the fourteenth executive producer at Daybreak in eleven years.
* In the Wrestling/HulkHogan film ''Film/MrNanny'', Hulk's character Sean Armstrong enters the household just as the kids send another nanny packing. The cook tallies off another name on a short list and explains;
-->'''Corinne:''' This is like the roach motel; 'The nannies check in...'
-->'''Armstrong:''' '...But they don't check out.' Well, that doesn't seem like a long list.
-->'''Corinne:''' Huh! ''(Pushes button on list, revealing it's a '''very''' long list folded over several times)''
* ''Film/NannyMcPhee'': The Brown children have driven away 17 nannies by the start of the film. The latest being Nanny Whetstone, the toughest, strictest, most fearless nanny in all the land, who was driven away in just over 3 days, after the children tricked her into thinking that they had ''eaten the baby''. The turnover rate of nannies in the Brown family is such that the Nanny Agency shut its doors entirely to Mr. Brown, telling him that there were "no more nannies". At least, until the titular Nanny [=McPhee=] arrived.
* ''Film/TheSoundOfMusic'': No nanny can cope with the entire Von Trapp family, until Maria comes along. She was the ''twelfth'' governess whom Captain Von Trapp had hired since his wife died. He tells her he hopes she's more successful than the last governess, who stayed only two hours.
* Mr. Thackery was one of a string of teachers in ''Film/ToSirWithLove''; the kids drove one of his predecessors to suicide.
* ''Film/ThisIsSpinalTap'': Spinal Tap's drummers have a tendency to expire in a number of strange ways. Two of them spontaneously combusted.
* After Frank's wife died in the original ''Film/YoursMineAndOurs'', he tried to get a house keeper to mind his 10 children, all of whom were angry over their mother's death and father's negligence (he spent much of his time gone in the Navy). They were all shown storming out horrified at the children. The final housekeeper actually set up the first real meeting between the main couple when she embarrassed his eldest daughter to the point that she fainted, necessitating a trip to the infirmary where Helen works.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* The [[Literature/AeonLegionLabyrinth Aeon Legion's]] training program is [[TrainingFromHell extremely brutal]] since the instructors can just [[GoodThingYouCanHeal heal the recruits from most injuries]]. The training's high standards eliminates many recruits the first day and many more drop out voluntarily. The training starts with thousands of recruits and ends with around a hundred.
* Passepartout's predecessors in ''Literature/AroundTheWorldInEightyDays'' couldn't live up to Phileas Fogg's exacting standards.
* The ''Literature/AstraMilitarum'' novel ''Literature/FifteenHours'' is named so because that's the average life expectancy of new soldiers in the book's war zone.
* ''Literature/DialAGhost'': Oliver is the ninth Snodde-Brittle to become lord of Helton Hall in just four generations. The eight before him all died {{undignified death}}s, most of them at young ages.
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
** In the novel ''Literature/GoingPostal'', Moist von Lipwig takes on the job of Postmaster General after several previous occupants of the post died in odd accidents. Given the ruin he was put in charge of he'd assumed these deaths had occurred when they stopped delivering mail decades earlier, and was distraught to learn that it had been last month - none of the recent appointees had survived long enough to clean the place up.
** Equally, Kings/Patricians before Vetinari and Archchancellors before Ridcully used to have quite short tenures; one king was killed less than two seconds after his coronation, and became known to history as King Loyala the Aargh. Patricians always seemed to end up going crazy and needing to be replaced or assassinated, while the wizards were firm believers in KlingonPromotion. Vetinari got around this by [[VetinariJobSecurity being irreplaceable]], Ridcully by being virtually unkillable. The last patrician before Vetinari, Mad Lord Snapcase, lasted about a decade. Homicidal Lord Winder is also implied to have lasted a good while. The Archchancellors, by comparison, were replaced once per book, implying tenures counted in single-digit months.
* Mayors in the ''Dr. Sam Hawthorne'' mysteries by Creator/EdwardDHoch died in various impossible manners.
* ''Literature/FullDisclosure:'' Three characters hold the position of White House Chief of Staff over about two months. The first, venerable statesman Lucas Cartwright, is promoted to a cabinet position and replaced by White House Counsel Mark Hennessy. Hennessy is forced to resign due to bribing a man to keep quiet about the first time Ericson was blind. Press Secretary Smith becomes the new chief of staff, although it remains possible that [[spoiler: incoming President Frenlingheusen will replace Smith with someone he’s more familiar with.]]
* The infamous Defense Against the Dark Arts class at [[WizardingSchool Hogwarts]] in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' novels. Which was [[AWizardDidIt literally jinxed]] [[spoiler:by [[BigBad Voldemort]] when he was refused the job]], and as a result, no single instructor lasted more than a year teaching the class. [[spoiler:Following Voldemort's death, however, the jinx on the position is lifted and there is now a permanent DADA instructor at Hogwarts.]] The seven that we see during the books:
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'': Quirinius Quirrell [[spoiler:turns out to be a servant of Voldemort, and dies while trying to kill Harry]].
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'': Gilderoy Lockhart [[spoiler:turns out to have faked his credentials, and accidentally erases his own memories while trying to remove Harry and Ron's]].
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndThePrisonerOfAzkaban'': Remus Lupin [[spoiler:is forced to leave in disgrace after his status as a werewolf is publicly revealed]].
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'': Alastor "Mad-Eye" Moody [[spoiler:is actually a shapeshifting imposter and is rendered catatonic by a monster attack]].
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheOrderOfThePhoenix'': Dolores Jane Umbridge [[spoiler:is abducted by centaurs after alienating the student body with her tyrannical ways. Survives to join Voldemort's regime but is sent to prison after it's overthrown]].
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheHalfBloodPrince'': Severus Snape [[spoiler:becomes Headmaster after murdering the old one, then dies himself in the next book]].
** ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows'': Amycus Carrow [[spoiler:was installed by Voldemort's regime, is sent to prison after it's overthrown and gets tortured to boot]].
* ''Literature/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'': Almanzo's school has gone through several teachers in ''Farmer Boy'' because a gang of older boys comes every winter to beat them up. No teacher has ever finished a winter term, and at least one was beaten so badly he later died from his wounds. Everyone expects the same thing to happen to nice, young Mr. Corse, until he uses a blacksnake whip to drive them off.
* The ''Literature/InDeath'' book ''Portrait in Death'' has Eve and Peabody question a photographer named Dirk Hastings about some murders. Hastings has this sort of situation, because he is apparently such a tyrant and {{Jerkass}} that he scares off a lot of young assistants. He even says that he goes through assistants like toilet paper, and consequently has a hard time remembering them!
* In Creator/DianaWynneJones's ''Literature/TheLivesOfChristopherChant'', Christopher goes through a long string of governesses; they have no trouble with Christopher himself, but rather can't tolerate the stormy relationship between his parents.
* Jumpers from Literature/TheSiranthaJaxSeries. Jumpers are people born with the "J-Gene", which allows them to safely navigate ships during [[FasterThanLightTravel grimspace jumps]] (people without the J-Gene can't perceive the beacons left behind by [[{{Precursors}} The Makers]] while in grimspace, and thus would likely be lost forever). The problem comes from the fact that grimspace travel is like an addictive drug for Jumpers, causing them to experience orgasmic euphoria when jumping. Not only can this have severe psychological effects, but it can also cause brain lesions to form, which results in Jumpers eventually making a jump and coming out of it brain dead. This is called "navigator burnout syndrome" and means that Jumpers rarely live past 30, being constantly replaced; even individual ships will frequently go through multiple Jumpers during their active service.
* The office of Hand to the King in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has seen several characters take the office. It is officially the NumberTwo to the King and is essentially the same as "Prime Minister" or Grand Vizier, with the expectation they serve as TheGoodChancellor to TheGoodKing. Since good kings are in short supply during the War of the Five Kings, a lot of different people give the post the old college try. Three of them ([[spoiler:Jon Arryn, Ned Stark, Tywin Lannister]]) get killed on the job for political and/or other complicated reasons. One of them, Tyrion Lannister, proved to be more than competent, but was overwhelmed by his own family and the foreground bigotry for being a dwarf and when Cersei Lannister becomes RegentForLife, she fills it with [[YesMan Yes-Men]] with predictable results. According to Jaime, the turnover of Hands was worse under [[TheCaligula Mad King Aerys]] due to his [[YouHaveFailedMe tendency to execute people who displeased him]], to the point where he didn't bother learning the ''names'' of most of them, and thought of them by their coats of arms.
** Lordship of Harrenhal is another. The castle has had several owners (ranging from careful to catastrophic) throughout its history, due to the fact that every house or individual that has held it has suffered a disastrous end. It wouldn't seem so bad if it stuck to simply reducing the life expectancy of its highest commanders alone, but it tends to take out their families, too. Because of this, Harrenhal is widely believed to be cursed and lordship of it has become something of a WhiteElephant. Of the several characters that have held it throughout the series thus far, five of them have perished: [[spoiler: Tywin Lannister, Gregor Clegane ([[BackFromTheDead sort of...]]), Amory Lorch, Vargo Hoat, and Janos Slynt]].
** The same universe-set novel ''Literature/FireAndBlood'' mentions that [[TheButcher Maegor the Cruel]] got through three Grand Maesters in the space of his six-year reign; he beheaded the first one for daring to dispute Maegor [[TheUsurper seizing the crown from his nephew]] after his brother King Aenys died, the second for condemning Maegor for [[ExoticExtendedMarriage taking a third wife]] when his marriage to his second wife had set off a holy war with [[ChurchMilitant the Faith Militant]] and beheaded the third after his first child was born [[FetusTerrible a deformed monstrosity]].
* In Creator/AnneMcCaffrey's ''Literature/TowerAndTheHive'' series, Afra Lyon takes up the role of second-in-command of Callisto Tower, where the Prime in charge, The Rowan, has gained a reputation for going through them like gum (a combination of candidates being unwilling or unable to cope with her temperamental nature and her simply sending them packing because she didn't like them). He becomes her best friend and later, [[spoiler:her son-in-law]].
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', [=ShadowClan=]'s leader/deputyship positions before and during the first series, due to bad luck and evil takeovers. Starting with Raggedstar's leadership, his first deputy Foxheart was killed by rats, and second deputy Cloudpelt died in battle with [=WindClan=]. His third deputy was his son Brokentail, who shortly afterward murdered his father to take the leadership position. Both Brokenstar and his deputy Blackfoot were exiled when [[ZeroPercentApprovalRating their Clan and ThunderClan rose up against them]]. Nightpelt took the leadership role, with Cinderfur as his deputy, but both died only half a year later from illness. This is when [[BigBad Tigerstar]] stepped in and claimed leadership, but he met his end a half year afterward due to his evil scheming. Finally the turnover rate went back to normal after Blackstar became leader.
* Implied in ''Literature/WaxAndWayne''. The position of valet to Lord Waxillium Ladrian sounds like a comfortable gig, especially since the Ladrians are a highly aristocratic house. As poor Drewton discovers, Wax's interest in the constabulary isn't academic; he's a CowboyCop and trouble magnet, to the point where he takes down a gang a few hours before his wedding. While in the middle of a train robbery on what was supposed to be a diplomatic mission, Drewton wonders what happened to the last valet.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* ''Series/TwentyFour'': Milks this trope, particularly in the arena of who will be the president in any given stretch of episodes and the high mortality rate of Jack's bosses. The number of the latter is debatable depending on who all you count as being is boss (i.e. all direct superiors or just agency directors?) but there are no fewer than 6 people that have been presidents in 24's 8 seasons. The number rockets to 9 if you include whoever was president in season 1, Logan's vice president taking over when he resigns and take President Taylor's resignation in the series finale into account. It's a wonder this universe's version of the United States can keep it together at all. The series takes place over about 14 years, that's 9 presidents spread out over about three presidential terms worth of time. '''Holy shit!'''
* On ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' mayors of Starling City do not have a long life expectancy. By the start of season 4 no one wants to run for the position and the city is run by a council of senior city officials, none of whom are willing to accept the title of Acting Mayor. Even that does not help and most of them are soon killed.
* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}'':
** In "[[Recap/BlackadderS2E2Head Head]]", Edmund mentions that Head Executioners have a nasty habit of getting into nasty accidents, such as [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch accidentally brutally stabbing themselves]] in the stomach [[CutHimselfShaving while shaving]]. Inevitably, this is just before he gets the job in question.
** Most amusingly, when Blackadder assumes the latest Head Executioner was murdered, he is informed that though they usually are, this time the man just signed his name on the wrong dotted line and they came for him while he slept:
--->'''Blackadder''': He should have told them they had the wrong man.\\
'''Melchett''': He did, but you see, they didn't, they had the right man and they had the form to prove it.
** In "[[Recap/BlackadderS1E3TheArchbishop The Archbishop]]", the post of Archbishop of Canterbury is similarly undesirable, mostly because previous archbishops had a habit of persuading dying noblemen to leave their lands to the Church instead of to the [[Creator/BrianBlessed KING]].
* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''
** None of the Scoobies like to talk about it, least of all Buffy, but most Slayers don't survive long enough to reach their mid-twenties.
** When Giles takes over ownership of The Magic Box, Buffy snarks about Magic Box owners having "The life expectancy of a [[Film/ThisIsSpinalTap Spinal Tap drummer]]."
** The [[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E12DoublemeatPalace Doublemeat Palace]] has a high turnover rate, like any other fast food service outlet, but naturally Buffy assumes a [[TheSecretOfLongPorkPies sinister explanation]]. Which turns out to be wrong; it's actually a customer who loves the taste of the employees. Fast food servicing indeed.
* ''Series/{{Cheers}}'': The Lillian Corporation, who own Cheers between series 6 and 8, seem to go through executives like toilet paper, to the extent that Rebecca, an ExtremeDoormat to any superior that comes along, has become utterly sick and jaded halfway through series 7.
* ''Series/CriminalMinds'': While the [=BAU=] team has otherwise remained consistently the same for 10 years (other than Gideon's replacement by Rossi in Season 2 and J.J.'s TenMinuteRetirement in Season 6), the 7th member slot has had a consistently high turnover rate, especially in the last few seasons. The position was first held by Elle Greenaway in Season 1, then by Emily Prentiss in Season 2 to 5 and 7, then by Ashley Seaver in Season 6, then by Dr. Alex Blake in Season 8 and 9, Kate Callahan in Season 10 and most recently by Dr. Tara Lewis in Season 11. If you go by Harry Potter logic, you might think that Elle, the first person to hold the position, put a jinx on it when she left by [[spoiler: performing a vigilante execution of a serial rapist]].
* ''Series/DangerUXB''. Bomb disposal officers are promoted up from the ranks, as there is no point in wasting Sandhurst-trained officers in a job that will kill them in a few weeks. However as the war goes on the unit gains enough experience to lengthen the odds a bit.
* ''Series/DeadliestCatch'': It's been stated that 80-90% of greenhorns on Alaskan crab boats last less than a year after they're first hired. If a crabbing vessel needs to fill a vacant position for whatever reason, one can expect them to go through several failed candidates before finding a suitable one.
* ''Series/EarthFinalConflict'': Gene Roddenberry's show is both a straight and meta example, given the high turnover rate of its cast and characters. Due to assorted production and inter-personal issues, main actors tended to leave the show after only a season or two, leading to a constantly changing roster of lead characters (which also had elements of KlingonPromotion, ironically enough, as each departing character tended to have their role in the plot replaced by the supporting character most directly under them). In fact the only character who lasted through all 5 seasons was the secondary antagonist and [[TheStarscream Starscream]], Agent Sandoval.
* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': The small council and the office of Hand in particular become this during the series after nearly two decades of relative stability.
* ''Series/GilmoreGirls'': RunningGag: Lorelai's mom Emily can't keep a maid because she has such strict guidelines on how she wants things to be done. Either they fail to live up to her standards and are fired, or they reach their limit for abuse and quit.
* ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'': By the time of the death of King Viserys, the elderly Lord Lyman Beesbury is the only minister of the Small Council who's served continually under the reigns of both kings Jaehaerys and Viserys. All the other chairs around the council's table have seen at least two (Hand of the King) or more people occupying them.
* ''Series/TheInspectorLynleyMysteries'': When the main characters, DI Tommy Lynley and DS Barbara Havers, are initially paired together, all of Scotland Yard starts betting on how long the partnership will take to implode, as neither of them can keep partners for very long (he's a [[InsufferableGenius smug asshole]], she [[HairTriggerTemper has a temper]] that [[HotBlooded makes Guy Fawkes Night]] [[{{Tsundere}} pale into insignificance]]). Nobody gives them more than thirty days. By episode three, Barbara flatly declares to Lynley that "[[UndyingLoyalty You resign]], [[TrueCompanions I resign]]." Seven series later, the two are [[TheNotLoveInterest going strong]] with no signs of slowing down, although there's still [[VitriolicBestBuds plenty of bickering to be had]].
* ''Series/LasVegas'': Montecito owners are usually killed or bought out, with the notable exception of [[spoiler:Sam Marquez]] and outright subversion of [[spoiler:AJ Cooper]].
* ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': While they do usually manage to last a couple seasons each, this show goes through Assistant D.A.s at a pretty brisk pace, especially when you consider the core of the S.V.U. department has remained constant throughout the years. About 50% eventually ended up being terminated with prejudice (in one case seemingly ''literally'', and another case actually literally) for one reason or another.
* ''Series/MadMen'': Don Draper cannot keep a secretary for the life of him:
** Peggy: Don makes her a copy writer.
** Lois: Transferred back to switchboard after making one mistake too many.
** Jane: Fired by Joan for helping the rest of the cast break into Bert Cooper's office, rehired by Roger because he has a grudge against Joan, quits to marry Roger.
** Allison: Quits after she sleeps with Don and he keeps acting like it never happened.
** Mrs. Blankenship: Dies of natural causes at her desk.
** Megan: Marries Don and becomes a copy writer. Her replacement quits in the first episode of Season 5. This trope became lampshaded around this point.
** Dawn: Worked for Don without any problems but then Don was put on forced leave and Dawn was almost fired by his replacement. Joan instead promotes her to office manager.
** In season 7A Don is put under severe restrictions at work and must accept [[DumbBlonde Meredith]] as his secretary.
* ''Series/MastersOfTheAir'': Over the course of the series, bomber crews in the US 8th Air Force are required to accomplish 25 missions before their tour of duty is finished. However, getting to 25 is anything but easy, with many bombers and their crews getting shot down over enemy territory at least OnceAnEpisode, resulting in them getting killed or imprisoned by the Germans. By the time the 100th Bomb Group is six months into their operations in Europe, almost all of the original prewar bomber crews have either been killed or taken as prisoners, with the NewMeat crewmen called in to immediately replace the downed men, and EnsignNewbie officers tasked with filling in the shoes of the officers lost over Occupied Europe.
* ''Series/{{Misfits}}'': In this show's world, ''do not'' become a parole officer. You will die, your body will never be found, and, seemingly, [[PoliceAreUseless the authorities will ignore your disappearance]].
* ''Series/{{Merlin 1998}}'': King Vortigern's architects are frequently imprisoned or executed for destructive errors in the construction of Vortigern's "impregnable" castle; the final architect is given a lenient sentence of unemployment, and told to leave before Vortigern changes his mind. Somewhat justified; none of them noticed the incredibly obvious ''stream'' running out of the hill under the walls which Merlin spots instantly, and the resulting collapses killed many workers. Likewise, the Royal Soothsayer seen in the film is the third employed that month, and he meets a similar fate as the final architect: [[LampshadeHanging Merlin himself notes]] that the King seems to get through them at an alarming rate, only for the Soothsayer to remark, "He gets through ''everything'' at an alarming rate."
* ''Series/MurphyBrown'':
** As Dan Quayle is well aware, the title character is a single mother, but beyond that, she can't get a decent secretary and has to keep firing them. Except one, Carol, who is perfect, she's the best one in the world. She's so good, her former boss, Creator/BobNewhart, comes on the show and begs her to come back to him and Jerry. (Of course he'd need to have her back, he was never running a bed-and-breakfast in Vermont, the whole show was AllJustADream and he was still a psychologist in Chicago.)
** In the last season, Murphy has to stand before a JokerJury made up of all her fired secretaries. After Murphy gives her ReasonYouSuckSpeech and they let her go, she meets up with one secretary who had perfect qualifications and no trouble with the job whatsoever. Murphy can not remember firing her.
* While the main cast of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' lasts for years without changes, episodes in which replacements are necessary generally feature references or montages that it takes a while to find agents who are willing to put up with Gibbs (or vice versa) for more than a week.
* ''Series/PicketFences'': Mayors in this show either died, or were involved in a scandal of some sort.
* ''Series/ThePrisoner1967'': Sometimes a mysterious overlord changes the local boss if they [[YouHaveFailedMe fail in their objective]]. For instance, this show: there is often a new Number Two, because the last one failed to break Number Six.
* ''Series/{{Oz}}'':
** Schillinger goes through numerous [[TheDragon Dragons]] over the course of the series, almost all of whom wind up dying horribly. The only exception, Robson, is instead "only" put through a HumiliationConga that ends with him being kicked out of the Aryan Brotherhood.
** Similarly, whoever is the leader of the Homeboys seems to wind up dying one way or another. The only exception is Redding, though not for lack of trying.
* ''Series/TheSopranos'': The head (''caporegime'') of the "Aprile" crew changes many times through the course of the series, to the point that many mobsters believe it to be cursed (a more realistic interpretation might be that due to the Esplanade construction business, whoever runs that crew is the biggest earner in the family by default, which naturally invites conflict with others [[TheStarscream coveting for the position]] as well as with Tony himself because of the latter's greed and [[DudeWheresMyRespect ungratefulness]]). It starts out under Richie Aprile, who is shot and killed by Janice in a [[DomesticAbuse domestic argument]] (and was already about to be taken out by Tony for plotting against him). Gigi Cestone is put in charge by Tony, but he unexpectedly dies of a heart attack [[TheCanKickedHim while on the toilet]]. Ralph Cifaretto succeeds him, who lasts quite a while (against all odds, since Ralphie is a coked-up {{Jerkass}} who makes a lot of enemies) before Tony finally murders him over a dead horse. His underling Vito Spatafore replaces him, but is later outed as a homosexual and [[HomophobicHateCrime viciously murdered]] by his cousin-in-law Phil Leotardo for it. Tony puts in Carlo Gervasi to replace him, but he disappears in the GrandFinale when it turns out he became a [[MoleInCharge federal witness]]. Tony finally offers the job to Paulie, who strongly rebuffs him because of the curse before reluctantly agreeing to head what remains of the crew--by that point the entire crime family is on its last legs already due to a MobWar.
* ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': It is mentioned that before T'Pol, no Vulcan has lasted more then ten days on a Human ship.
* The first season of ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' saw the ''Enterprise'' go through ''four'' different Chief Engineers: [[WrenchWench Lt. Commander Sarah [=MacDougal=]]], [[FlatCharacter Lt. Commander Argyle]], [[{{Jerkass}} Lt. Logan]], and [[SmallNameBigEgo Lt. Leland T. Lynch]] before Geordi transfers from helsman to Chief Enginner in season two.
* ''Series/TheThickOfIt'': The Minister for Social Affairs and Citizenship never lasts long. One senior civil servant remarks that she has served under five different ministers, or, as she puts it, "a box-set". That was in the first episode of the show - she has now served under eight.
* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': Nadja and Lazlo's [[TheRenfield familiars]] regularly die in bizarre, ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes''-esque accidents, forcing them to constantly find new ones and causing Nandor's own familiar Guillermo to be even more overworked. Partway into season two they try to put a stop to the cycle by getting their most recent dead familiar revived as a VoodooZombie. It... [[CameBackWrong doesn't go well]].
* In ''Series/TheWire'', Rawls likes to use Lieutenant Charles Marimow to break up problematic investigation units that he doesn't care for (even calling Marimow his TrojanHorse). Because Marimow is known for being an arrogant, obnoxious, unreasonable prick, all but the most dedicated or foolhardy detectives voluntarily transfer out of units that he commands.
* The reason why Sir Humphrey Appleby is the most powerful member of the Ministry of Administrative Affairs in ''Series/YesMinister'' when Minister Jim Hacker is the official head of the department is that political appointees rarely last long - Humphrey's been with the civil service for more than thirty years, and the average Minister doesn't last one.
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[[folder:Music]]
* Generally happens in any IAmTheBand situation.
* It's said that no guitarist other than John Frusciante was meant to play for the Music/RedHotChiliPeppers. Over the course of 27 years, they have gone through 9 guitarists, most of whom didn't last more than a few months.
* Website/TheOtherWiki has a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Members_of_The_Fall page]] dedicated to cataloging all the former members of The Fall.
* It's an old joke that when a woman ReallyGetsAround, they say she's had more members in her than Music/TheDoobieBrothers.
* Music/JethroTull has this, particularly with bassists and drummers.
* Music/{{Rainbow}}, Ritchie Blackmore's post-Music/DeepPurple band had such a high rate of turnover, they never recorded two albums with the same lineup. A special mention goes to the bassist who was fired at the start of recording their third album, before ever playing a note on it.
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[[folder:Podcast]]
* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'': Interns at the radio station have such a high mortality rate that the [[http://nightvale.wikia.com/wiki/Intern_Death_Toll wiki]] has an entire page on it. As of Episode 49, fifteen interns (and one intern's doppelganger) have been lost. Six have been confirmed dead, three are missing and presumed dead, two are no longer human, three were lost in space and/or time (although two later returned alive and unharmed), and two are presumed KIA or at the very least MIA.
-->'''Cecil:''' ...To the parents of Chad the intern, we regret to inform you that your son was lost in the line of community radio duty, and that he will be missed, and never forgotten.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* Troubleshooters (the ''player characters'') in the RPG ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}}''; there's a ''[[KillerGameMaster reason]]'' they come in cloned six-packs.
** Asking what that reason is is treason, which is punished by summary execution.
** On a [[BlatantLies completely unrelated note,]] cans of beer are often sold in six-packs.
* The Cheiron Group of ''TabletopGame/HunterTheVigil'' goes through employees at an alarming clip. Which is why the player characters can get signed on.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'': This is part of the reason the Black Templars are tolerated by the rest of the Imperium despite violating the Codex Astartes's limits on chapter size, having a standing army of at least 5000 Battle Brothers at any time compared to the prescribed 1000. While most SpaceMarines are considered indispensable works of biomechanical art who are expected to serve the Emperor for at least a couple of centuries before something manages to kill them in battle, the [[FearlessFool insanely]] [[LeeroyJenkins aggressive]] [[AttackAttackAttack tactics]] practiced by the Templars mean that they're constantly losing Marines at least as fast as they can recruit new ones and if they didn't do their best to keep the chapter massively over-strength, it would go extinct overnight.
** The [[RedshirtArmy Imperial Guard]] is the Imperium's main fighting force, and numbers in the billions. A large part of their fighting doctrine includes [[ZergRush overwhelming the enemy with large numbers of line troopers]], most of whom aren't very well equipped since only the most basic armor and weapons are standard issue, but they ''can'' be experienced veterans who has survived actions like that many times before. The ones that become veterans are invariably the few troopers who survive. However, it should be noted that the other half of Guard doctrine involves their massive numbers of [[TankGoodness heavy tanks]], [[DeathFromAbove self-propelled artillery]], and various other vehicles.
** [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orks]] are like the Guard, but...more. They come in huge numbers, riding in hundreds of ramshackle vehicles (relatively few of which can stand up to much punishment), and most troops carrying some goofy guns that are more for [[ATeamFiring making loud noises than to hit something]], but the guns they do use for hitting something pack a lot of hurt. They also breed explosively, by asexually and passively shedding spores throughout their lifetime, but especially at death. That means that their style of war not only has a high attrition rate, but ''relies on it'' so that conflict can replace casualties, and, if no countermeasures are put in place, bolster their numbers and make them stronger as a conflict grinds on. On worlds where Orks are the sole inhabitants (or if they wiped out everything else), Ork tribes make war on each other until they reach a "critical mass" and a leader unifies the tribes and finds a way to travel to other worlds in a combination holy war and mass migration (also a twisted form of pub crawl, since Orks also ''love'' to fight).
* In ''TabletopGame/{{Anathema|2011}}'' it's entirely possible for a player's shroud to succumb to despair and suffer annihilation within a few hours of their creation, if they aren't careful. No one ever said that culling the human population was an easy job.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In one of the ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' {{Visual Novel}}s, it's mentioned that working for the [[BigScrewedUpFamily Ushiromiya family]] pays really well, but most servants can't handle the stress.
* In ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'', it's implied the reason that the team refers to the player primarily by nicknames (specifically "Rookie") is due to this trope since your primary purpose after all is to be the team Guinea Pig for highly dangerous experimental technology.
--> '''Venkman''': Ah-ah, no names, Ray. I don't want to get too attached to this one.
* In ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic 2'', the Royal Seer is responsible for adjudicating between the late king's two sons. Four in a row die [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch in successive accidents]].
* The Guards in ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', particularly the ones in Falador, have a roughly 100% turnover rate, and they're lucky to make it a couple of minutes without being randomly killed by players. A quest [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this in conversation between two of the guards, in which one mentioned that they have a life expectancy of about 30 seconds and then an NPC come in and kills them both.
* Sewer Jockeys in VideoGame/SewerShark, as explained by Ghost (the player's "backseat"[[note]]Another name for a co-pilot.[[/note]]):
--> '''Ghost''': "Crash and burn! CRASH AND BURN! The sewer jockeys come, and they go!"
* The night guard position in ''VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', even the player character only makes it seven nights at most.
* ''VideoGame/BuzzAldrinRaceIntoSpace'' has this trope for 2 reasons:
** {{Anyone can die}}, often in a [[KillItWithFire fiery]], [[AlmostOutOfOxygen suffocating]] or [[StuffBlowingUp explosive]] way (but can also be an from [[WeaksauceWeakness anticlimactic traffic accident]]).
** Astronauts have every right to quit when they want to and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere they often do]]. Reasons include the fear of being one of those who experience {{anyone can die}}, not getting the glory they want, personal reasons, or [[SkewedPriorities preferring a job in the military]].
* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' has Iron Bull mention that no one was willing to take the job of administrating the Qunari city of Alam on the island of Seheron, largely because Tevinter assassins had killed the previous four incumbents within a year.
* In ''VideoGame/Disgaea5AllianceOfVengeance'', the position of Void Dark's secretary has a high turnover rate due to Void Dark being an AxCrazy BadBoss prone to killing his secretary for arbitrary minor offenses. By the time the game starts he's on his 83rd secretary. He goes through six more throughout the game.
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'': The codex mentions that, due to the Sith Order's ChronicBackstabbingDisorder and propensity for {{Klingon Promotion}}s, the tenure of new members of the Dark Council is frequently only weeks.
* The position of Yulia's prison warden in ''VideoGame/{{Echocalypse}}'' is notorious for this. The longest anyone's lasted as her warden is three months, because she's a ManipulativeBastard who loves to mess with her wardens until they crack, knowing that she'll get a new "doll" soon enough and implies that she could leave any time she wanted.
* In ''VideoGame/Warhammer40000RogueTrader'', your flagship has nearly thirty thousand RedShirts and their families living, working, and dying on it every day. After [[YouAreInCommandNow assuming command following your predecessor's death]] in an attack by [[ReligionOfEvil Chaos worshippers]], part of Chapter 1 involves replenishing your staff after thousands of them were killed. Even after this, your crewmen dying in horrible ways becomes a semi-regular occurrence due to HyperspaceIsAScaryPlace, {{Space Battle}}s, or incidents with [[RagtagBunchOfMisfits your morally dubious companions]].
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* The webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Freefall}}''... every other mechanic Sam has taken on has run away screaming within a day. In some cases literally. But of course, Florence IS a bit different...
* A short arc in ''Webcomic/SuicideForHire'' focuses on a normal business offering nachos and other foods to contrast the eponymous job, while tweaking the trope a bit by having the main character be unsuccessful. The [[CrapsackWorld incredibly idiotic customers]] typically drive any worker intelligent enough to add insane within a few days. Arcturus lasts a few days before trying to strangle a man with red rope licorice, and only a week before trying to murder a man over a burger. That's still beating the spread by four days.
* In ''Webcomic/ExterminatusNow'' Eastwood and Virus once mention that Lothar and Rogue are their first hired guns to make it to the bi-annual review. Before them the record was held by Smitty, or was it Jonesey, who survived ten months.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* D-class personnel are the Website/SCPFoundation's equivalent of {{Red Shirt}}s. They're recruited from death row inmates for a reason: as if the extremely lethal positions they're given aren't bad enough, D-class personnel are killed one month after being demoted to this level. Exceptions are very rare, usually for skill sets (even the Foundation needs lab techs), the poor schmuck's a living victim of an SCP's effects retained for study, is [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-181 the SCP in question]], or [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1055 required to keep containment]].
** Due to the rate the Foundation goes through D-class how much they depend on them, this was eventually changed so that only the D-class that have been in contact with contaminous/memetic scps are killed, and the rest simply have their memories wiped of the last month and start over. "Sacrifice D-Class to the scp until you understand it" is still standard procedures, though.
* The ''Literature/BastardOperatorFromHell'' goes through bosses pretty fast, to the point that the employment agencies start sending their absolute crap there, knowing that he'll get rid of them. The company's accountants and auditors also have a tendency to "disappear" or suffer "accidents".
* The [[Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale Night Vale]] radio station goes through [[RedShirts interns]] at a laughable rate.
* The Slaughterhouse 9 of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'' are almost always recruiting new members and are never seen to have a full nine members in story. The heroes and villains are more than willing to kill these {{Serial Killer}}s.
* In Season 12 of ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'', the Reds and Blues learn that the leadership for the Federal Army of Chorus and the New Republic has changed multiple times because of previous leaders dying. General Doyle admits that his initial position before his superiors bit it was personal secretary to the brigadier. [[spoiler: Given that the mercenaries Locus and Felix are PlayingBothSides to commit mutual genocide, it should come as no surprise.]]
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'' featured, in one episode, a series of flashbacks to the many babysitters who couldn't handle the Freeman boys. They never find one who can. Even the new guy, Uncle Ruckus, lasts about five minutes.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' ran this with babysitters, before finding a character who was ''[[LawyerFriendlyCameo in no way whatsoever]]'' like Mary Poppins. She is still driven mad by the anxiety of looking after the family.
** The episode "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E21ThePTADisbands The PTA Disbands]]" had a high turnover rate for substitute teachers in Bart's class, because he kept driving them away with his pranks. Finally, Principal Skinner found the one person who could handle Bart: his mother Marge.
* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' many nannies attempted to tame Eric Cartman's horrifying behavior; all rapidly became mad.
** However a suitable caretaker is eventually found... however, it's TheDogWhisperer, who only manages to deal with Cartman's cruelty and racism by treating him like a disobedient yappy dog.
** No love for Nanny Skeksis?
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}'': The employees of the band Dethklok seem to have a high turnover rate in general, but the ''chefs'' they employ apparently have to be replaced so often that even the band members (who unknowingly cause death and destruction among almost everyone they come in contact with) believe them to be cursed. This seems to end with Jean Pierre, who suffers a horrible accident but survives and continues to serve them after being poorly sewn back together (they even write a song about it called, appropriately enough "Sewn Back Together Wrong").
** Just the training to become a Klokateer has a guaranteed fifty percent death rate: the very first task is to pair off and fight to the death. On the other hand, every recruit that makes it to the branding is insanely loyal.
** Even Jean-Pierre's insanely loyal: right before getting in the accident, he said he'd rather scoop out his brains with a melon baller than miss the opportunity to serve Dethklok -- right after they detailed what happened to his predecessor.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}''
** The Emperors of Trisol (the water people planet) tend to last only a week on average. When Fry ascends to the throne, we see his royal portrait is already followed by blank frames for Fry's Assassin and Fry's Assassin's Assassin.
-->'''Fry:''' Well, at least my assassin gets what's coming to him.
** It's implied a few times throughout the series that Professor Farnsworth was used to a somewhat high turnover of the flight crew until the present one managed to avoid death. The dangerous-sounding missions might have something to do with it. On one occasion when the crew doesn't return as soon as anticipated, Farnsworth is seen already welcoming a new crew to Planet Express.
* In the episode when Mrs. Beakley was introduced on ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'', she is preceded by a montage of nannies terrorized by the nephews' antics, but unlike the others she immediately learns their names and can differentiate them.
* Happened to the Sheriff of Scabstone in ''WesternAnimation/RockosModernLife'', the job being taken by Bloaty and Squirmy as the old sheriff continued running across the Fatlands.
** Also happened to Heffer during his stint as a security guard at Conglom-O.
* Straight from the pilot episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheDreamstone'', the Urpney army are quickly revealed to have been dealt with in rapid pace by both [[GoodIsNotSoft the heroes]] and [[YouHaveFailedMe their own boss]] in earlier episodes, with Sgt Blob, Frizz and Nug rightfully terrified when [[YouAreInCommandNow they take over as the Elite Squad]]. It is implied the only reason they didn't suffer the same fate is because both Zordrak and the Noops had conveniently decided to use more pragmatic approaches shortly in.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* All organizations have turnover. If for no other reason, that people grow old and retire. So, a certain amount of turnover is to be expected. The critical thing to monitor is what percentage of an organization’s total headcount leave and are replaced during a given period of time. It is a general rule that an annual turnover rate of 25% or lower is healthy. Anything higher than that and the organization is deemed to have a retention problem that can affect productivity.
* Teachers, at least in the US, have a reputation for this, and not wholly undeserved, as roughly 44% of those going into the education field will quit within the first five years - if they make it past that hump, the turnover rate drops sharply.
** A slightly more positive example from the world of higher education: many colleges have job positionns intended to be filled by current students or fresh graduates, with the idea that they stay long enough to have something to put on their resume and then move on to the "real world".
* Debt Collection has an extremely high turn-over rate, with nearly 85% of callers quitting within a year of being hired. The same can be applied to telemarketers, or really any job where you have to call strangers with the objective of getting money. Getting yelled at on a daily basis is not a terribly great incentive.
** Often true for those ''receiving'' the calls from strangers as well, such as in customer service. It is slightly better in that the customer had to call you rather than the other way around, but they are usually no less angry. Unfortunately, the customer service rep is often powerless to do much more than take the complaint. In addition to angry customers, the rep may have to deal with [[Website/NotAlwaysRight incompetent users]], especially for customer service relating to technical products such as computers or mobile devices. Trying to explain (seemingly) simple instructions to a tech-illiterate customer over and over every single day gets tiresome very quickly. That's not even counting those who wind up being the fifth or sixth representative to get an increasingly irate customer who got shuffled around by other reps who didn't want to deal with them, or who have to explain to businesses that what the sales department promised them was impossible, and that they were lied to, and that no, there is no eleventh-hour magic that can be worked.
* According to Eric Schlosser's ''Fast Food Nation'', most major fast-food chains have a 100% turnover rate every year, with the average employee lasting only three months. [=McDonald's=], in particular, is a big offender, and managers have been known to bonus based on how many employees they fire (which saves the company the expense of offering perks like health insurance and PTO). Do note that as with most franchises, different managers may be treated differently especially as the economy changes.
* The New York Stock Exchange also has high quitting rates, mostly the ones on the floor.
* Being a freelance mercenary has one of the highest attrition rates of any job, and there is an epic list of reasons for this. 1. The work is illegal, so no protections or benefits. 2. Places where you do work suck. 3. The work is often very boring. 4. People who go in for this are often unpleasant if not vile, and fuckups to boot. 5. The pay is not great. 6. Boredom will make you 'crave' anything for stimulation. 6. Employers like to exploit and underpay. 7. You can literally get killed doing this. 8. All the stresses of being in a war with none of the perks of being a 'real' soldier. 9. Most mercs are highly opportunistic. If you find yourself with a band that consistently pays what they promise on time, isn't full of people who spend more time addled than sober, and actually participates in combat operations, it's a keeper. There is a reason why old-school "wild geese" are dying out and replaced by PrivateMilitaryContractors, who offer much better job prospects for recruits.
* The most decorated unit in the British Army is a unit specialising in Explosive Ordinance Disposal. There is a reason for this.
* Apple's factory in Cork City, at least with production staff. They hire through an agency and it is [[strike: not unheard of]] quite frequent that staff would be let go the day they are hired because the order they were hired for is no longer required.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Italy Prime Minister of Italy]], esp. since 1953.
* The retail industry (at least at the store level) sometimes have a turnover rate over 100% for part timers - how is that possible, you ask? It occurs when all positions have been refilled more than once in a given year. Full timers average 60% turnover. Anyone who has worked retail can attest that these figures are pretty accurate.
** Awkward hours, pay that averages only slightly better than fast food, and constant abuse from customers and corporate don't quite foster faith and loyalty in an organization.
** Sometimes it's done deliberately. Since operating a cash register and stocking shelves doesn't require a lot of skill, some managers encourage turnover to get the experienced (and more expensive) employees out of the way so newer (and cheaper) replacements can come in. Since some places offer mandatory pay increases after a probationary period, some places encourage "constructive discharge" by making the employees so miserable they want to quit.
** And many of the retail positions are seasonal, such as the Christmas rush. A lot of stores hire large numbers of people to help out in late October and early November, and then let most of those people go sometime in January.
** The Covid-19 Pandemic also seemed to be a breaking point for many retail workers with many of them quitting their jobs en masse. As mentioned above those reasons where a also big contributing factor
* Average tenure for a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Prime_Ministers_of_Japan Prime Minister of Japan]] since the end of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII is less than a year each. Because the [=PMs=] are the primary ScapeGoat for bad governmental policies, they tend only to last until the next party scandal or cock-up. There has been no prime minister who survived two consecutive full terms, i.e. eight years (the longest serving, Shinzo Abe, served eight non-consecutive years and resigned before his second premiership -- just three months short of eight years -- was done).
* Throughout UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror, there has been a bit of BlackHumor amongst the American intelligence community is that this is the case for the third-in-command for Al Qaeda, the job position evidently hitting that sweet spot between low enough in the chain to require exposing himself to actually do his job, and being high enough in the chain to make him a high-value target for one of the most powerful modern militaries in the world.
* Becoming more and more the case throughout the world as the ruling class attempts to push business (and other endeavors) toward a "lean" or "agile" model, replacing long-term, secure jobs with benefits with short-term, lower-paid, unbenefited positions. The economic and psychological costs are immense, but since these costs fall on relatively powerless people instead of [[CorruptCorporateExecutive those who benefit from such penny-pinching policies and control the media and government]], they are little discussed.
* Special Operations. Everything about it is apt to make even the toughest bastards wash out or give up. The work inside is just as harsh and demanding. The physical stresses of the job aside (one of the main reasons people leave special operations units are training injuries), specs ops is a highly stressful, difficult, dangerous lifestyle, and you can't talk about anything. Imagine seeing your best friend captured and then burnt alive with Molotov Cocktails and then having to pretend nothing happened.
* Library/information science, especially the desk clerks and shelvers. They are either going to school and working there temporarily or using it as a starting point to move up to higher positions later. Director, reference and computer jobs aren't this, though.
* College sports, by definition. With rare exceptions (such as an extra year of eligibility due to an injury), [[UsefulNotes/CollegiateAmericanFootball college football]] and UsefulNotes/{{basketball}} players spend at most four years with their schools' teams, and that's only if they don't transfer or declare for the [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague NFL]] or [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation NBA]] draft before what would otherwise be their senior year. Because of the cyclical nature of college athletics, fans of college football and basketball teams, as compared to their pro counterparts, tend to support the team as a whole to a much greater degree than showing their devotion to individual players, because the nature of college sports makes long-term loyalty to any one player impossible (unless such a fan follows the player with his pro team while continuing to cheer on the college team with the new players, which many fans do).
* High turnover in college sports isn't restricted to players. Most coaches, especially in the so-called [[MoneyDearBoy "revenue sports"]] of football and men's basketball, are always on the lookout for their next position—whether it's a head coach moving to a higher-profile program (and often bringing assistants along); a dismissed coach finding a new landing spot; or an assistant moving on to a better assistant job, or becoming a head coach.
** An extreme example of this coaching turnover took place in [[UsefulNotes/GroupOfFiveConferences Arkansas State]] football in the [[TheNewTens 2010s]]:
*** 2010: After a second consecutive 4–8 season, the Red Wolves let head coach Steve Roberts go, replacing him with offensive coordinator Hugh Freeze.
*** 2011: The Red Wolves dramatically improve, winning the Sun Belt Conference title and finishing the regular season 10–2. Freeze then takes the head coaching job at [[UsefulNotes/PowerFiveConferences Ole Miss]], taking four assistants with him. They lose their bowl game under an interim head coach (one of the assistants who stayed on).
*** 2012: Gus Malzahn, previously offensive coordinator at Auburn, comes in as the new head coach. A 9–3 regular season and another Sun Belt title follows... and Malzahn is hired by Auburn again, this time as head coach. A second assistant is named interim head coach, and this time they win their bowl game.
*** 2013: Bryan Harsin, who had shared offensive coordinator duties at Texas, becomes head coach. They aren't quite as successful, going 7–5 in the regular season, but still share the Sun Belt title. Immediately after the season, Harsin [[RunningGag is named head coach]] at Boise State University. The same assistant who had led ASU in its 2012 bowl game again serves as interim head coach, [[ShaggyDogStory and the Red Wolves win again]].
*** 2014: ASU hires Blake Anderson as head coach. In an attempt to stop the turnover, a hefty buyout clause is written into his contract. His initial salary was $700,000, and his buyout was $3 million in each of the first two years of the deal. That finally worked; Anderson stayed in Jonesboro until being hired away by Utah State after the 2020 season.
* This trope in college sports even goes beyond players and coaches... conferences have experienced it from time to time, most notably the Western Athletic Conference. The WAC, founded in 1962 with 6 members, experienced relatively little turmoil for its first 20-plus years; while charter members Arizona and Arizona State left for what's now the Pac-12 in 1978, the league would soon stabilize with 9 members. Things were relatively calm until the mid-90s...
** In 1992, the Southeastern Conference played its first football championship game, which became a ''monster'' cash cow for the league. Since NCAA rules at the time required that a conference have 12 members in order to play a championship game, other leagues began maneuvering toward that end. By this time, the WAC had 10 members, as Fresno State had joined a few months before the first SEC title game.
** Then in 1994, the Southwest Conference imploded, and the Big Eight Conference took in that league's four biggest-name schools to create the current Big 12 Conference, which would begin play in 1996. That was the chance the WAC was looking for, since four SWC schools were left out of the Big 12. They took in Rice, TCU, and SMU from the SWC, and didn't stop there, adding San Jose State and UNLV from the Big West Conference and Tulsa from the Missouri Valley Conference, bringing the league up to 16.
** However, the 16-team WAC was beset by internal and external issues from its outset, and within two years, most of the "classic" members were [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere fed up with it all]]. Air Force, BYU, Colorado State, Utah, and Wyoming agreed in 1998 to break away, recruiting fellow old-line members New Mexico and San Diego State plus "newcomer" UNLV to form the Mountain West Conference in 1999.
** 2000: Nevada (as in the Reno campus) joined.
** 2001: After the Big West dropped football, Boise State University left that league to join the WAC. Louisiana Tech also joined at this time, while TCU left for Conference USA.[[note]]TCU went from there to the Mountain West and eventually to the Big 12 (the last move came after it reneged on an announced move to the Big East).[[/note]]
** 2005: When Conference USA got raided by the Big East, C-USA responded by luring Rice, SMU, Tulsa, and old-line member UTEP. The WAC responded by adding Idaho, New Mexico State, and Utah State. Things then settled down until the early-2010s realignment cycle, when this went into overdrive:
** 2011: Boise State left for the Mountain West. Fresno State and Nevada also announced plans to leave for the MW at that time, but agreed to stay on for an extra year in exchange for a reduced exit fee.
** 2012: The WAC brought in five new schools: football-playing Texas State and UTSA,[[note]]Texas–San Antonio[[/note]] plus non-football Denver, Seattle, and UT Arlington. At the same time, Fresno State and Nevada officially left for the MW. The last old-line member, Hawaii, also left; noticing that the conference was expanding eastward, raising its already-high travel costs to utterly ridiculous levels, it decided to join MW football while parking its other sports in the Big West.
** 2013: No fewer than ''seven'' schools left the WAC—Denver to the Summit League, LA Tech and UTSA to C-USA, San Jose State and Utah State to the MW, and Texas State and UT Arlington to the Sun Belt Conference. In advance of these defections, the WAC had announced it would no longer sponsor football after the 2012 season. In order to maintain its status as a D-I conference, it added men's soccer and brought in several new members—Cal State Bakersfield, Chicago State, Grand Canyon (from Division II), Texas–Pan American, UMKC,[[note]]Missouri–Kansas City[[/note]] and Utah Valley.
** 2014: Idaho left for the Big Sky Conference, and things finally slowed down again... although changes have continued to the present.
** 2015: While there were no membership changes per se, one member did change its institutional identity. Texas–Pan American was merged with Texas–Brownsville to create Texas–Rio Grande Valley, or UTRGV. The UTPA athletic program moved directly to UTRGV.
** 2018: California Baptist joined from D-II.
** 2019: Another member changed its athletic identity, with UMKC rebranding its athletic program as Kansas City (although maintaining "UMKC" in educational contexts).
** 2020: Cal State Bakersfield left for the Big West, and Kansas City returned to its previous home of the Summit League. Utah Tech (at the time known as Dixie State) and Tarleton[[labelnote:*]]one of two Texas schools that has recently dropped "State" from its athletic identity; another is in the bullet point immediately below[[/labelnote]] joined from D-II.
** 2021: Four Texas schools joined: Abilene Christian, Lamar, Sam Houston[[labelnote:*]]the other Texas school that recently dropped "State" from its athletic identity[[/labelnote]], and Stephen F. Austin[[labelnote:*]]which dropped "State" from its athletic identity long before Sam Houston and Tarleton[[/labelnote]]. They had been set to join in 2022, but their arrival was accelerated when their prior home of the Southland Conference expelled them. The WAC also revived its football league, though at the FCS level instead of FBS.[[note]]Central Arkansas, Eastern Kentucky, and Jacksonville State joined for football only at that time to give the new WAC enough football teams for an automatic berth in the FCS playoffs. With those schools' full-time home of the ASUN Conference starting its own FCS football league in 2022, they left to align fully with that league... though Jacksonville State left FCS entirely to join C-USA in 2023. See below for later developments.[[/note]]
** 2022:
*** Chicago State left, and two schools joined in football-sponsoring Southern Utah and non-football UT Arlington (yes, the same UT Arlington from 2012–13). Time to take a big breath for our next items:
*** Incarnate Word had announced it would leave the Southland Conference to join the WAC in 2022. But, ''less than a week'' before the move would have been official, it decided to stay in the SLC.
*** And then Lamar, which had essentially no success in its first year in the WAC, first announced it would return to the SLC in 2023, and then accelerated that move to 2022.
** 2023:
*** New Mexico State and Sam Houston left to join C-USA.
*** The WAC merged its football league with that of the Atlantic Sun Conference (which had just dropped "ASUN" as its primary brand, though keeping it as an abbreviation), forming a new entity known as the United Athletic Conference. The ASUN and WAC had established a football-only partnership in 2021; while both had their own conference schedules in 2022, they kept that partnership active. In both seasons, the WAC–ASUN partnership had a single automatic berth in the FCS playoffs.
** 2024:
*** UTRGV will leave for the SLC.
* While professional sports doesn't have quite the extreme turnover rate of college sports, a team ravaged by injuries can experience it. The 2015–16 [[UsefulNotes/NationalBasketballAssociation Memphis Grizzlies]] took this up a notch:
** Of the 12 players who saw action in the season's first game, only four played in the team's final game, the last of a four-game sweep by the San Antonio Spurs in the first round of the playoffs. Among the missing were stars Marc Gasol (who missed most of the season to a foot injury) and Mike Conley (who missed the last month of the season and the Spurs series to an Achilles injury).
** The Grizzlies were forced to use 28 players during the season, a record for a playoff team. NBA rosters are limited to a maximum of 15.
* The pro-Soviet Communist parties in the West during the Cold War, especially the Communist Party of Great Britain. Because they were outspoken enemies of "the Establishment" and the inequalities and injustices of modern capitalist society, they tended to appeal to a young, radical, non-conformist demographic - who were then expected to become obedient drones and stick to "party discipline". Furthermore, a lot of those who didn't quit before the end of their university education would eventually rise to rank in the parties - but this was a problem, because most of the pro-Moscow parties took "Moscow gold" (i.e, financial assistance from the [[UsefulNotes/MoscowCentre KGB]]) in order to stay afloat. Unfortunately, they told their young members to denounce this as a capitalist calumny to try and discredit them. When those members found out the truth, many left in disgust.
** This problem was also present, although to a lesser degree, in the Trotskyist parties, due to the way many of them were set up: the system of democratic centralism is in theory designed to ensure internal debate but external unity. Many used a system whereby activists had to debate party policy in a narrow window between a couple of party congresses, and then shut up after a course of action had been decided. This tended to lead to simmering ideological feuds that eventually boiled over outside conference time, leading to mass-resignations or splits. Ironically, UsefulNotes/VladimirLenin, the creator of democratic centralism, still recognized that absolute control by a centralized leadership discouraged new ideas from lower-level member. He argued that free thought and open discussion should be tolerated and encouraged until the vote was taken, ''then'' total obedience would be demanded. But then UsefulNotes/JosephStalin turned the entire process into a rubber stamp for the leadership within a narrow window, and deliberately ensured that party congresses were held infrequently.
* Professional Sports Team rosters change somewhat from year to year, but the New York Knicks go through players like water.
* European football coaches, especially when the team is going through a crisis. Clubs facing relegation have managed to go through half a dozen coaches in one year. As of the time of writing, Watford FC are perhaps the gold standard; since Gino Pozzo became chairman in June 2012, they've changed manager ''nineteen times and counting''.
* The academics have become this, with prospective scientists going from one underpaid temporary post-doc position to another for years, hoping they could somehow miraculously get tenured.
* The job of Australian Prime Minister has been compared numerous times to ''Series/GameOfThrones'' and it had truly earned its reputation for this, a la Italy and Japan, although in this case it seems to be somewhat cyclic: between 2010 and 2018 (8 years), Australia has had 5 Prime Ministers, and one of them was PM twice. Between 1975 and 2007 (32 years), Australia had another 4 Prime Ministers. Between 1966 and 1975 (9 years), Australia had 5 Prime Ministers, although one of them was a caretaker PM after his predecessor disappeared. Between 1949 and 1966 (17 years), [[Main/LongRunner we had just one.]] It's reached the point where paramedics no longer ask who the Prime Minister is as a way to check the mental state of a patient, because it's not inconceivable that even a completely alert person ''might not know''.
* Command of the Army of the Potomac in the American Civil war changed frequently over the course of the four-year war: Irwin [=MacDowell=], George [=MacClellan=] (who arguably counts twice as he was appointed and later dismissed on two separate occasions), Ambrose Burnside, Joseph Hooker, George Meade, John Parke (acting commander on four occasions when Meade was called away from his command). With the exception of Meade and Parke, all of them were dismissed by Lincoln for botching the command.
* UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump's Presidential Administration went through a record turnover rate due to various scandals or those who refused to do as Trump demanded of them. So much so that it got its [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Trump_administration_dismissals_and_resignations own Wikipedia page]], with most departments even having their own sub-pages.
* From their 1999 reactivation in the UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague until Baker Mayfield established himself as a potential franchise quarterback in 2018, the Cleveland Browns had '''''31''''' [=QBs=] starting for them. By comparison, the New England Patriots had only 6 [=QBs=] in that same timespan (Drew Bledsoe, Creator/TomBrady, Matt Cassel, Jimmy Garoppolo, Jacoby Brisset, and Cam Newton).
* Any kind of business that chooses to use a multilevel marketing (MLM) business model. The model depends ''entirely'' on people getting others into their downline (rather than actually selling the product), but this gets harder and harder as more and more people join the MLM (as does trying to make a profit from the product itself). Many people who join MLM businesses quit (often after having lost money), and are replaced with new "consultants"/"distributors"/"representatives"/whatever the company calls them in short order. They are essentially {{Ponzi}} schemes, even if they sell (or claim to sell) a product or service.
* Happened so often with cabinet-level positions in democratic French history that they came up with a term for it: "la valse des ministres" (the ministers' waltz).
* A specific business example was Amy's Baking Company, a now-defunct restaurant in Scottsdale, Arizona whose owner, Amy Bouzaglo, would fire any employees who didn't do exactly what she wanted them to do at all times or said anything that wasn't in total compliance with her opinions, upon which she and her husband Samy would quickly hire someone else in their place. The restaurant [[Recap/KitchenNightmaresS6E15AmysBakingCompany was featured]] in two episodes of ''Series/KitchenNightmares'', in which Amy proudly told host Gordon Ramsay that she went through over 100 employees in a year. As there were at most 15 employees at a time, this would be a roughly 600% turnover rate. This really struck a nerve with Ramsay who, despite his harsh exterior, is AFatherToHisMen at his own restaurants.
* The UK joined Japan, Italy and Australia with the high turnover rate of its Prime Ministers since 2016. Despite tensions around numerous issues, then-incumbent David Cameron won the 2015 general election. However, after the 2016 Brexit vote was saw the "Leave" campaign win, Cameron, who had supported "Remain" resigned, replaced by Theresa may in 2016. Theresa May launched a general election in 2017 to secure her government, but this served actually diminish her parliamentary majority. Come 2019, the Conservative Party voted Boris Johnson as the leader of the Conservative Party, and he won the 2019 general elections handily. Johnson himself would only remain Prime Minister until 2022 before being ousted due to a series of scandals, replaced with Liz Truss who herself lasted just under two months before she was replaced with Rishi Sunak. There have since been a lot of speculation that Sunak himself could be ousted before the 2024 general elections. And even if not, the general elections are widely expected to end his tenure, leaving the UK with six Prime Ministers between 2016 and 2024.
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