except under the limited circumstances set forth in 5th Cir. R. 47.5.4. 1 . The district court found that the remark did not refer to the accusations in the Bellinger report. 2 . Had Hinojosa been fired, he would have lost all the stock options. 3 . Hinojosa later abandoned his race discrimination claim. 4 . Because the witnesses gave different accounts of the conference call, it is possible for a jury to find that the Vice President did not even make these remarks. In that case, however, Hinojosa had no reason to believe that he might be fired if he did not retire. In the absence of such a threat, there is no possibility that his working conditions had become so ''intolerable” that he had no choice but to retire. 5 . See Henn v. Nat'l Geog. Society, 819 F.2d 824, 829-30 (7th Cir.1987) (<HOLDING>). 6 . Aryain v. Wal-Mart Stores Tex. LP, 534
holding that harassment threats and one beating did not constitute persecution holding that threats to fire employees based on legitimate concerns about productivity do not constitute harassment because any threats made to these plaintiffs  were no greater than justified by their lack of sales holding that threats standing alone generally do not constitute past persecution holding that the defendants purchase of a firearm and ammunition on the same day that he made a threat demonstrates that his threats are more than mere puffery and evidences an intent to carry out the threats holding that threats to inflict financial or personal harm are not true threats where no ones personal safety is threatened