Protip: After firing your head chef just days before Christmas for wanting to take time off to spend with his newborn daughter (pictured, left), remember to take away his access to the restaurant's official Twitter account.

With many stores staying open during Thanksgiving this year thereby forcing workers to miss out on spending the holiday with their families, one store manager decided to take a stand on behalf of his employees — and was promptly terminated.

It was bad enough when three men in her section decided to skip out on a $96 bill, but it got a whole lot worse for waitress Suzanne Parratt when she was subsequently fired from her job for refusing to cover the unpaid tab.

An Idaho high school girls basketball coach says she was fired for posting a vacation photo on her personal Facebook page showing her fiancé grabbing her right breast.

A former Walmart employee says he fired from his job this week after defending himself against an assault in the store's parking lot.

A My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fan who says he was fired from his job over his affinity for the popular animated show has sparked significant discussion concerning the legality of his alleged termination.

A veteran New York librarian was stunned to learn this week that she was being fired after 41 years on the job — all because she defended a child whom her boss felt read too much.

New information that has surfaced in the aftermath of investigative reporter Shea Allen's termination "without cause" is casting much needed sunshine on the events leading up to her controversial dismissal.

Investigative reporter Shea Allen of the Huntsville, Alabama-based ABC affiliate WAAY-TV got a bit too free with her speech for her employer's comfort late last week when she posted a series of candid "confessions" to her private blog.

Going above and beyond the call of duty normally earns an employee praise from his or her superiors, but one daycare teacher in Florida says she was fired for doing more than was required by her job description.

Carla Cheney's shift at a Kemptville, Ontario, Walmart hadn't yet begun when she saw a customer leave his dog, a heavy-coated Newfie, inside his car on a particularly hot day this week.

A domestic violence victim has come forward this week after being fired from her teaching job at a San Diego Catholic school because she was deemed a liability for having an abusive ex-husband.

Bus driver Johnny Cook believed he was doing the right thing when he took to his personal Facebook page to recount the story of a middle school student who approached him to complain about having to go without lunch because he was 40 cents short on his pre-paid cafeteria account.

The Welsh Sexagenarian who made international headlines after he was caught on camera using his bare hands to drag a 6-foot dusky shark away from children bathing in the ocean off Australia's Sunshine Coast revealed this week that he had been fired from his job at a children's charity after his bosses saw footage of…

A senior living facility in Bakesfield, California, says one its nurses was just doing her job when she refused a 911 dispatchers repeated pleas to perform CPR on an elderly resident who ultimately passed away.

In the comments section of a recent Salt Lake Tribune story about a smoothie bar owner who charges liberal customers more for their drinks, another Utah business owner expressed his support for the initiative, and said he was also doing his part in the fight against different points of view.

An Arby's employee of 23 years was unceremoniously terminated last week from her job as assistant manager of a store in Fairborn, Ohio, less than a day after she managed to flee an armed robbery by climbing out of the drive-thru window.

Lauren Odes of New Jersey says she was terminated from her data entry position at the Manhattan-based lingerie company Native Intimates because her Orthodox Jewish employers thought she was "too hot."