Sentences with phrase «fired on a whim»

No one can do their best work when they are made to live in fear of being fired on a whim.

The mayor would still have controlled an overwhelming majority — he just couldn't fire them on a whim.

Teachers made the same wages as car washers; autocratic principals harassed teachers on a daily basis; and teachers could be fired on a whim.

Teachers need to be able to innovate and push the system, but that won't happen if teachers think they can be fired on a whim or principal personality conflicts.

Not exact matches

Trump, 70, has never shied away from changing his mind or firing subordinates on a whim.

Even if he has made good strides in some areas, firing people on a whim (and this article indicates he has spontaneously fired Ms. Fuentes before) is not good leadership.

The plot involves a series of terrorist attacks perpetrated by the Mandarin (Ben Kingsley)-- a mysterious figure who makes videos like Al - Qaeda, wears ornate silk robes, and speaks in an American accent with heavy enunciation — and a think tank run by Aldrich Killian (Guy Pearce), a man with a chip on shoulder against Stark, that's creating super-soldiers who can increase their internal body temperature on a whim (Illogically, they can be killed by fire, except, of course, when the story calls for their immunity to it)-- sometimes with explosive results.

We will turn teachers into «at will» employees who can be fired at the whim of a principal based on little more than test scores.

Also on a whim fired up the old Gamecube for a new save of Wind Waker.

Worked in a shared university setting at St. Olaf College, fired the largest wood fired kiln in the Northern Hemisphere at St. John's University in MN during a traditional Japanese studio apprenticeship, studied ceramics with Japanese masters at Kansai Gaidai in Osaka, Japan, apprenticed under a Maine bookbinder on a summer whim resulting in her now 14 year residency in the state, run a restoration and fine bookbinding business in 3 State Theater studios, half a residential South Portland duplex and finally the basement of her house, shared broom sized apartment studio nooks, rented various studio's equipment and cubbies and moved her own office in with her easel at RWS while she managed 3 apartment buildings on the East End.

The way that the EPA shooting from the hip apparently on any political whim has most folks just sitting back waiting for someone to get fired, whoever that might be:)