Related Clues:

• Personnel manager, at times
• Human resources head, at times
• One with an ax?
• Pottery worker
• Boss, at times
• Personnel director, at times
• He's got a gun
• Pink-slip giver
• Trump, on a TV show
• Pink-slip dispenser?
• A boss, occasionally
• Pink-slip issuer
• One axing
• One discharging a weapon
• Kiln operator