AXER

• Bunyan, for one

• Downsizer

• Feller

• Hatchet man

• Lumberjack

• Lumberjack, at times

• Lumberjack, often

• One firing

• One who cans?

• Paul Bunyan, at times

• Pink-slip dispenser

• Pink-slip giver

• Ruthless boss

• Ruthless boss, maybe

• Ruthless boss, perhaps

• Ruthless personnel director

• Splitter who makes splinters?

• The one firing

• Woodsman, at times

• Woodsman, often