About Please Fire Me and PleaseFireMe FriDay:

PleaseFireMe.com (PFM) is the popular online destination for disgruntled workers everywhere. Launched by Adam Chromy and Jill Morris, and now a book: Please Fire Me: Posts from the Revolting Workplace, PFM is now offering their malemployed fans and contributors more than just a platform for their gripes...it is giving them much needed hope, direction and visibility on PleaseFireMe FriDay on May 6, 2011.

"Your boss is illiterate; your co-worker eats her own hair–whine it all out on PleaseFireMe."
—Details.com

American media has been voicing the complaints of the unemployment since the recession began three years ago, but it's time for the malemployed (people who are unhappy with their jobs) to be heard about the bigger, longer-term epidemic of job dissatisfaction (according to the Conference Board, worker satisfaction is at an all time low with only 45% of workers content with their jobs in 2010).

Please fire me. I was accused at work of thinking.

The mission of the PleaseFireMe FriDay is to unite and make public the huge number of malemployed people out there, and show our economic power to effect change in the workplace. It will take massive public demonstrations, labor shortages, and lost earnings to change how workers are treated by corporations that only consider the profit motive.

To keep the PleaseFireMe FriDay fun, and in a throwback to senior ditch day (doesn't that j-o-b feel like the limbo of your last year of high school?), PleaseFireMe.com is organizing the nation-wide strikes and urging all workers (and sympathetic managers—you were workers once too) to call in sick 5/6/11 and party and enjoy your leisure time in the most public way possible: drink, dance, and be merry in the parks, beaches, pubs, and streets. Let your joy be seen and heard!

Please fire me. Sometimes on my lunch break I drive to the park and cry.

Millions of people NOT working in solidarity will be a great first step in changing the workplace. For more information and official PleaseFireMe FriDay updates, be sure to visit PleaseFireMe.com.

Please Fire Me: Posts from the Revolting Workplace by Adam Chromy and Jill Morris offers the best workplace horror stories from the site, as well as the PFM guide to surviving and overthrowing the corporate machine.

About the Authors:

Adam Chromy worked as a tech headhunter for over a decade before becoming an agent for writers and artists. He uses his entrepreneurial drive and experience to help clients realize their creative and professional goals. He created PleaseFireMe.com to inspire everybody to make their work life better.

Jill Morris manages PleaseFireMe.com and is a writer and performer whose work has appeared at The Upright Citizen's Brigade and in The Onion and McSweeney's.