Firing Firing is the termination of employment by an employer. Though such a decision can be made by an employer for a variety of reasons, ranging from an economic downturn to performance-related problems on the part of the employee, being fired has a strong stigma in many cultures. To be fired, as opposed to quitting voluntarily , is often perceived as most commonly refers to the involuntary termination of employment.
Firing may also refer to:
Operation
- Shooting Shooting is the act or process of firing rifles, shotguns or other projectile weapons such as bows or crossbows. Even the firing of artillery, rockets and missiles can be called shooting. A person who specializes in shooting is a marksman. Shooting can take place in a shooting range or in the field in hunting, in shooting sports or in combat a projectile weapon
- Operating devices, for example firing the shutter on a camera.
- The act of starting a fire Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. Slower oxidative processes like rusting or digestion are not included by this definition
- Pottery firing Pit firing is the oldest known method of firing clay. Unfired pots are nestled together in a pit in the ground and are then covered with burnable materials such as wood shavings, leaves, metal oxides, salts, sawdust and dried manure. The top of the pit may be protected with moist clay, shards, larger pieces of wood or metal baffles. The filled pit in a kiln Kilns are an essential part of the manufacture of all ceramics, which, by definition, require heat treatment, often at high temperature. During this process, chemical and physical reactions occur which cause the material to be permanently altered. In the case of pottery, clay materials are shaped, dried and then fired in a kiln. The final or oven
- Pin firing, an old medical treatment applied to horses
- An action potential An action potential is a short-lasting event in which the electrical membrane potential of a cell rapidly rises and falls, following a stereotyped trajectory. Action potentials occur in several types of excitable cells, including neurons, muscle cells, and endocrine cells. In neurons, they play a central role in cell-to-cell communication. In, where the depolarization of a neuron causes it to "fire" an electrical signal down its axon
Media
- "Fired", a song by Ben Folds from his 2001 debut solo album Rockin' the Suburbs
- Fired! a 2007 documentary film by Annabelle Gurwitch. see Fired! at the Internet Movie Database The Internet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, actors, television shows, production crew personnel, video games, and most recently, fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. IMDb launched on October 17, 1990, and in 1998 was acquired by Amazon.com
- Fired (film), a 2010 Indian horror film
See also
- Fire Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. Slower oxidative processes like rusting or digestion are not included by this definition and Fire (disambiguation)
- Firing squad Execution by firing squad, sometimes called fusilading is a method of capital punishment, particularly common in military circumstances or in times of war
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, manager quits over procurement violations Atlanta Journal Constitution Aman said four employees -- including two managers -- were fired . The city would not release the names, but Aman said their manager, Dan Oakley, ...
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