title: Rightful Termination: Defensive Strategies for Hiring and firing in the Lawsuit-Happy 90's First Edition (Taking Control)
author:  James Walsh 
description: Firing an unproductive worker can often be a risky financial and/or legal proposition. In Rightful Termination: Defensive Strategies for Hiring and Firing in the Lawsuit-Happy 90's, James Walsh provides practical steps to avoid common hiring and firing pitfalls. Using case studies and common sense from human resource experts, Rightful Termination gives a blueprint anyone can use, whether they have 6 or 6,000 employees. -- <i>Midwest Book Review</i>
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  Unspeakable Words | _Sarah Madison_ 2
  
  Unspeakable Words
  
  IT WAS never a good thing to be called into the boss"s office.
  
  Special Agent Jerry Parker sat down in the chair across from his supervisor
  and took the news the way he always did.
  
  “I"m being reassigned,” he said flatly. He smothered the sigh of resignation.
  Of course he was being reassigned. It had been less than two months since
  they"d had a break on the Stanley Peterson case. Peterson had pled out on the
  Tremaine murder charges so as to give evidence on the El Capitan operation. As
  usual, the bureau deemed Jerry"s skills to be of better use elsewhere, now
  that the case was winding up. Just once, he"d like to be part of the team that
  made the arrests instead of always part of the information-gathering system.
  _Always the bridesmaid,_ he thought.
  
  Assistant Director Harding cleared his throat, pulling Jerry"s attention back
  to the matter at hand. “Look, it"s a natural fit. You"re already based here