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Insubordination is the act of willfully disobeying a lawful order of one's superior. It is generally a punishable offense in hierarchical organizations such as the armed forces , which depend on people lower in the chain of command obeying orders.
While the main formal term for ending someone's employment is "dismissal", there are a number of colloquial or euphemistic expressions for the same action. "Firing" is a common colloquial term in the English language (particularly used in the U.S. and Canada), which may have originated in the 1910s at the National Cash Register Company. [2]
In stature and seniority, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur was the Army's foremost general. The son of Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur Jr., a recipient of the Medal of Honor for action during the American Civil War, [8] he had graduated at the top of his West Point class of 1903, [9] but never attended an advanced service school except for the engineer course in 1908. [10]
The police department argues Angwang should be fired for insubordination, saying. A suspended New York City police officer who had been accused -- then later cleared -- of spying for China is ...
Julia Child was fired from her advertising job for 'gross insubordination' Jon Chase/AP In the early 1930s, Child was the advertising manager of home furnishings company W&J Sloane's Los Angeles ...
Columbia City Manager Tony Massey issued a letter regarding Fire Chief Ty Cobb's recent termination, stating "continued insubordination."
Crystal Lee Sutton (née Pulley; December 31, 1940 – September 11, 2009) was an American union organizer and advocate who gained fame in 1979 when the film Norma Rae was released, based on events related to her being fired from her job at the J.P. Stevens plant in Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina, on May 30, 1973, for "insubordination" after she copied an anti-union letter posted on the ...
Jul. 30—The administrator of Flathead County Justice Court recently was fired after judges accused her of "insubordination" as well as mistreating and "micromanaging" the court clerks under her ...