People identify with their jobs. Ask someone what they do and
they'll just assume you're asking what their job is. They
may spend more time sleeping than working. They may even spend work
time sleeping. But no one ever responds to "What do you
do?" with "I sleep."
So it's no surprise that some people react poorly to being
terminated. However, the recently fired head of the Pacifica
Foundation, which runs several radio stations (including
public radio station KPFA in Berkeley)
is not going away peacefully. In fact, as reported in the Mercury News, she cut
the locks and barricaded herself in her old office. This
occurred on March 17, 2014, four days after the
foundation's board voted to fire Summer Reese. At
that point, she was one month into her tenure
as Executive Director (although she'd previously held
the position on an interim basis.) She is joined by her mother and
other supporters and, as far as I can tell, they're
still there.
