Yep, I think a sacking is probably quite rarely a sacking but more of a mutually agreed voluntary severance. "Mr Potter, if you want we can put you on a performance and results plan that if you don't hit in 4 weeks we'll sack you without pay and it'll be made known it's because you've failed to...
Wherever he goes I wonder if it'd be considered an act of charity for us to warn their forums to be on the lookout for an obsessive Swede with a pizza addiction?