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== Comic Books ==

 

== Film ==

* The main premise behind ''[[The Devil Wears Prada]]''.

* ... as well as [[Morning Glory]], also by screenwriter Aline Brosh McKenna. Becky Fuller (Rachel McAdams) is the fourteenth executive producer at Daybreak in eleven years.

* Mr. Thackery was one of a string of teachers in ''To Sir, With Love''; the kids drove one of his predecessors to suicide.

* The live-action ''[[Casper the Friendly Ghost|Casper]]'' movie. The villainess brings in a priest, ''[[Ghostbusters|Ray Stantz]]'' and even a wrecking crew. Eventually, the protagonist's father, a psychic psychiatrist, is contacted to try and exorcise the house.

'''Melchett''': He did, but you see, they didn't, they had the right man and they had the form to prove it. }}

** In the first series, the post of Archbishop of Canterbury is similarly undesirable, mostly because previous archbishops had a habit of persuading dying noblemen to leave their lands to the Church instead of to the [[Brian Blessed|KING]].

* Mayors in ''[[Picket Fences]]'': Died, or were involved in a scandal of some sort.

* As Dan Quayle is well aware, [[Murphy Brown]] is a single mother, but beyond that, she can't get a decent secretary and has to keep firing them. Except one, Carol, who is perfect, she's the best one in the world. She's so good, her former boss, [[Bob Newhart]], comes on the show and begs her to come back to him and Jerry. (Of course he'd need to have her back, he was never running a bed-and-breakfast in Vermont, the whole show was [[All Just a Dream]] and he was still a psychologist in Chicago.)

* The Doublemeat Palace in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' has a suspiciously high turnover rate - it turns out to be because of a customer who loves the taste of the employees. Fast food servicing indeed.

* ''[[Danger UXB]]'', being about bomb disposal, mentions this early on.

* Gene Roddenberry's ''[[Earth: Final Conflict]]'' is both a straight and meta example, given the high turnover rate of its cast and characters. Due to assorted production and inter-personal issues, main actors tended to leave the show after only a season or two, leading to a constantly changing roster of lead characters (which also had elements of [[Klingon Promotion]], ironically enough, as each departing character tended to have their role in the plot replaced by the supporting character most directly under them). In fact the only character who lasted through all 5 seasons was the secondary antagonist and [[The Starscream|Starscream]], Agent Sandoval.

* While they do usually manage to last a couple seasons each, ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' goes through Assistant D.A.s at a pretty brisk pace, especially when you consider the core of the S.V.U. department has remained constant throughout the years. About 50% eventually ended up being terminated with prejudice (in one case seemingly ''literally'', and another case actually literally) for one reason or another.

* In the ''[[Misfits]]'' world, ''do not'' become a parole officer. You will die, your body will never be found, and, seemingly, [[Police Are Useless|the authorities will ignore your disappearance]].

* A high-ranking Vulcan on ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]'' tells T'Pol that before her, no Vulcan liaison had lasted more than a few weeks on the Enterprise.

== Tabletop Games ==

* Troubleshooters (the ''player characters'') in the RPG ''[[Paranoia]]''; there's a ''[[Killer Game Master|reason]]'' they come in cloned six-packs.

* The Cheiron Group of ''[[Hunter: The Vigil]]'' goes through employees at an alarming clip. Which is why the player characters can get signed on.

 

{{quote|'''Venkman''': Ah-ah, no names, Ray. I don't want to get too attached to this one.}}

* In ''[[Heroes of Might and Magic]] 2'', the Royal Seer is responsible for adjudicating between the late king's two sons. Four in a row die [[The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much|in successive accidents]].

 

 

== Webcomics ==

* A short arc in ''[[Suicide for Hire]]'' focuses on a normal business offering nachos and other foods to contrast the eponymous job, while tweaking the trope a bit by having the main character be unsuccessful. The [[Crapsack World|incredibly idiotic customers]] typically drive any worker intelligent enough to add insane within a few days. Arcturus lasts a few days before trying to strangle a man with red rope licorice, and only a week before trying to murder a man over a burger. That's still beating the spread by four days.

 

== Real Life ==

* Debt Collection has an extremely high turn-over rate, with nearly 85% of callers quitting within a year of being hired. The same can be applied to telemarketers, or really any job where you have to call strangers with the objective of getting money. Getting yelled at on a daily basis is not a terribly great incentive.

** This McD's manager calls shenanigans. We do bonus based on the number of employees who are fired, it is true. We bonus if we ''don't'' fire them, not the other way around. If you have exceptionally high turnover at your store, it is a good way to get yourself replaced as a manager. She won't lie, turnover is high, but nowhere close to 100%.

* The New York Stock Exchange also has high quitting rates, mostly the ones on the floor.

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