Fired or Terminated?

Yesterday I hiked up a canyon three miles - an increase in elevation from 4600 ft to about 6800 ft. It was quite hot but it grew cooler at the higher elevation and a breeze started sucking up the canyon. I reached an old line shack and there was some nasty looking water in a spring seep there which my dog drank and lolled in gratefully. My friend was attempting to save a sick goldfish. It appeared to be confused and disoriented. My friend had just been 'terminated' and she had a lot of pent up energy which she lavished on this creature. She tried every cure she could find on the internet which included feeding the poor thing frozen peas, soaking it in Epsom Salts, and wedging it in an upright position. She also buzzed the fish water in a blender (without the fish in it). Then a Tibetan holy man happened to drop by and he blew on the fish. If it recovers, to what do we attribute the healing? And was my friend terminated or fired? I said it doesn't matter, but it does to her. She is glad she is free from a job that didn't suit her, but that doesn't soften the ego damage, even when the people who 'let her go' are a bunch of deeply mediocre sycophantic flunkies clinging pathetically to the ragged hem of the establishment press. Yuck.