Topic: Murray

So What's It Like to Get Fired Because President Obama Was Re-Elected?

Reuters

On Wednesday Robert Murray, the Chief Executive of Murray Energy, decided to pray and then fire 54 employees at American Coal and 102 more at Utah American Energy. Now one of Murray's layoff victims has taken to Reddit to explain what it was like to get that news.

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