Fire Me...Please is an hour-long hidden camera reality series which aired on CBS in summer 2005.
Two contestants each reported to a new job at separate locations and figure out how to get fired as close to 3:00 p.m. as possible (the store owners are in on the gag, but the managers are not).
(Although the show is often considered to parody the popular series The Apprentice, The Sack Race in fact debuted some months earlier.)
The main difference between the two versions is that the UK version was played entirely for laughs, with all of the contestants being young stand-up comedians (including an early appearance by Laura Solon), and no significant prize money at stake - the prize being merely the average daily wage for the job they took on.
While The Sack Race was promoted purely as a comedy programme, Fire Me...Please was advertised as a reality television show.