I WAS fired the other day. I believe the preferred phrase is “terminated,” which is how my former employer, Byliner, a digital publishing company and subscription service in San Francisco, put it. I was informed that our “burn rate” was too high, that we needed to show investors that we were serious about reducing it, and that while my loss of a job was unfortunately going to be a part of that reduction, this had nothing to do with the quality of my work. Soon thereafter, an email arrived from the company’s founder and chief executive saying how much he had enjoyed working with me.

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