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Firing Back

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Paul Calden said he would be back, and he was true to his word. On January 27, 1993, 8 months after being fired from his job at Fireman’s Fund Insurance in Tampa, Florida, the 33-year-old former claims manager returned to get even. This time, he would be the one to do the firing.

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  1. Bill Duryea, “He’d Done What He Came to Do,” St. Petersburg Times, February 2, 1993, p. 1B.

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© 1994 James Alan Fox and Jack Levin

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Fox, J.A., Levin, J. (1994). Firing Back. In: Overkill. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-6070-2_11

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