Canned

Canned

Conversations about getting fired. Heads up, there’s swearing -- after all, we’ve been fired.

Episodes

July 24, 2025 65 mins

Christian's job was literally to make federal government processes more effective or, you know, efficient. Then DOGE came along. 

Learn more about 18F and the work they did here.

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Christine was not shy about telling off The Man for making tech support worse.  The database mentioned? theceodatabase.com. Our heroine has been hit with several cease and desist notices, so by the time this goes live, it may or may not be online. We'll take that as her doing the right thing. 

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July 3, 2025 36 mins

Amy and Pam ask the important questions like... How do you fuck up being a mermaid? 

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May 9, 2025 66 mins

Pam gets the axe from her copywriting job, says eff that noise, and...  starts a podcast? What? Featuring CANNED's behind the scene enabler and producer, Amy Guth as this week's guest host. 

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April 10, 2025 39 mins

Amber wasn't even on company time. She was literally off the clock. And she got the axe anyway. 

Also, hey, here's that Antiwork Reddit Sub we mention at the intro. Fun fact, my former project manager is the one who turned me on to Antiwork. I miss him every day, working with him was great. When your project manager is an antiwork guy, you know you're on the right team. 

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March 27, 2025 48 mins

Dylan is going to make it through this year if it kills him. 

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March 20, 2025 48 mins

Jez Stewart from Prospect (a union that represents 157,000 workers in the UK) takes us through what a union does and why we want to be part of one. 

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March 13, 2025 47 mins

Rebecca Weaver, founder and CEO of HRuprise, talks us through the structural pitfalls of HR, why it's broken, and we can do to protect ourselves. 

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Delia was fired twice in one year, and that sucked ... a lot. Also, we have the chance to learn what's different about getting canned here in these United States vs. north of the border in Canada. 

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February 26, 2025 56 mins

Your paycheck has dematerialized, what the hell are you supposed to do now?  Meet Anita Gray, a financial planner and owner at Promenade Wealth, who helps us understand how to prepare for getting canned and what to do with our money if -- when -- we get the axe.    A quick disclaimer (and we do this in the audio, too) -- don't take this as investment advice.  For these interludes, our guests are folks who may not have been canned...

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February 13, 2025 73 mins

Settle in, friends, for Ben's wild tale of bad behavior, mistaken identity, and things literally falling apart. Producer Amy and I were both so confounded by this story that there's a bonus segment where the two of us settle in for some serious WTF time. 

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February 6, 2025 44 mins

Leif inadvertently schedules the meeting in which he gets fired.  Find Leif's books on his website

 

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February 2, 2025 42 mins

Mike is very much not himself in the interivew. It ends... like you'd expect. Badly. 

Mike has a newsletter called Everything is Amazing. He's kinda internet famous for it. 

 

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January 23, 2025 42 mins

Quincy learns the hard way that you should download your contacts and your work on the regular. You might lose access to that stuff and then what? 

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January 17, 2025 25 mins

Beware the bungee-in boss. And dry the trays, you punk-ass kid. 

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January 2, 2025 36 mins

Do not ask Jamie to tell you about a time. Don't do it. 

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December 26, 2024 31 mins

Matt ignores the signs at his own peril. 

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When Liz's husband got canned, she worried about how they'd manage. Badly, it turns out, because she got canned too. 

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December 12, 2024 54 mins

It's weird to be shown the door of the company you founded, but that's what happened to Rand

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December 5, 2024 60 mins

"It takes me on a little journey, every single episode. There's very philosophical moments, there's heartwarming, there's "holy shit, that was some fucked up shit that happened, and there's always something that makes me laugh out loud." 

Pam and Amy (the superstar producer behind CANNED) talk about how CANNED happened, what we've learned, revisit some greatest hits, and drop some eff bombs because you got fired, it's fucked up. 

 

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