employment

• A cushy job

  A job that is very easy, comfortable, and often well-paid, requiring little effort or responsibility.

• Give someone the boot

  To dismiss someone from a job, relationship, or a place, often abruptly and without ceremony.

• Given the heave-ho

  To be dismissed, rejected, or expelled from a position, place, or situation, often abruptly and without ceremony.

• Axed

  To be suddenly and often harshly dismissed from a job, project, or cancelled entirely.

• Working overtime

  To perform labor or duties beyond the standard, scheduled hours of employment, often for additional compensation.