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Dave McLure and the team at job site Simply Hired have hatched a clever PR stunt that features, yes, bloggers. It's called Simply Fired. Participants send in their stories on how they got fired and/or laid off. Fired Google blogger Mark Jen has been signed as the competition's poster child. He now works for Plaxo. I am going to be a judge along with some other esteemed bloggers. You can read the press release here.
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