No, the guy who was fired was working in a middle management position in a retail chain. If you think that guy's job description is ANYTHING like what Federwang or myself had to go through as store managers... you're very, very mistaken. Now granted the job has it's own set of challenges and the people who are good at it will put in long hours at it... but from everything Willco has said this guy was NOT someone who was good at his job, and having had the benefit (not really, ugh) of an extensive retail career myself I can vouch for what he's saying.
Dude had it coming. Karma!