The phone company IDT has recently taken out a full back-page spread on the local newspaper for an advertisement that screams "YOU'RE FIRED!!" in giant text with a lurid yellow background.
Ordinarily this bothers me no more than most other examples of inane advertising, but I started to get a bit freaked out this morning when I was surrounded by them on a crowded rush-hour train and I was a half-hour late to work. . .