No, firing and resigning are clearly different things (as is laying off). If your analysis were correct, then nearly every time a person parts ways with a job, it would be via being fired by their management.<p>The issue here was that the entire workplace isn&#x27;t going to be reformed for a single employee. It&#x27;s clearly a mismatch. The employee can then <i>choose</i> to adapt to the way things are done, or they can <i>choose</i> to move on -- which is what happened. In a firing, the employee has no choice, the decision has been made for them.<p>This is pretty clearly <i>not</i> firing. Firing comes with an entire bag of other things that resigning does not. For example, a person who was fired might be able to collect unemployment while looking for a new job. A person who resigns is not. A person who is laid-off is automatically able to collect unemployment.<p>Companies also are called by future employers to find out the nature of the split, and the way the separation happened will be in the employee&#x27;s file. Many companies will also keep a record of why the separation happened.<p>In the first case, convincing somebody to resign is a favor to the company, because companies must pay into the unemployment pool. In the second, it&#x27;s a favor to the employee because being fired can have long-term career consequences to them.