That's because you have to rape and murder the chancellor's family to get fired in academia. (Hell, you can rape little boys for 20 years and not get fired for that matter...)
Sad to say, but when you fire people enough, you get used to it. After my bloodbath of 2001 -- where I was trying to fly out to Boston to lay off an entire office of 25 people on the morning of 9/11/01 when the FAA intervened (and had to do it when they again allowed flights a few days later) -- everything seems pretty light and easy ever since.