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> What. Employees can quit, which is synonymous to firing the boss.

I disagree, quitting is not synonymous with firing the boss. When you leave, the company and your boss retain everything you built. You forfeit your stock options. Finding a new job isn't always trivial, either. Changing jobs and possibly changing locations is expensive.

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Al these can be flipped. Replacing a lost employee is expensive too. The boss forfeits the employee’s domain knowledge. The employee retains all the money they were paid.

They aren’t perfectly equivalent, but there’s a strong parallel between the two, which is why transactional employment relationships work.

when the boss interviews new hires and gets asked why the position is open he has to come up with a nice way to say my last employee quit on me.

Or lie, which is probably easier.

yeah, I was being facetious because the boss doesn't really get asked and can lie, the fired employee has to come up with a good explanation for why they were fired. Since the discussion was about ways in which there are differences between being fired and quitting.

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