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Taking “You’re Fired!” Too Far
From the Beyond Tasteless Files: The Fox network is planning to make a reality show out of layoffs, an AP story says. We’d peg it as a joke, but they’re a week late.
In the series, called “Someone’s Gotta Go,” employees of a small business get to choose which of their colleagues will lose their jobs. That might be…uh, entertaining…during a boom time, when the job market is awash with opportunities. But it seems vicious during a downturn, when more than 5.1 million people are unemployed in the U.S. The financial and emotional fallout that comes from losing a job is no game.
Fox isn’t revealing who the host—a business consultant—will be. For good reason, we’re sure; the face of the show is sure to draw America’s ire over the state of the economy. We just hope the laid-off person is the one who wins the show’s grand prize.
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Not even mildly amusing, but then again I would expect nothing less than Fox.