Because that's what happened to me yesterday at 5pm. My boss said that he was unhappy with my performance as of late and said that he was notifying me of my termination, effective immediately.
I started to chuckle and was like "Huh... alright". He didn't seem to understand why I was so "stoic" (his word). He said he had done this hundreds of times before and most people wanted to puke by the time they got to the stairs that went up to the parking lot. He walked me out to my 2004 325xi and said "wow... nice car". I said "Thanks, its paid for." Gave him my ID badge, my parking badge and my corporate Am Ex card.
Then I drove off, got to the edge of the property got out of my car, took a piss, shaked twice, zipped up and then drove home.
The reason why I was laughing was because I was going to quit in two weeks any way to start my own business. Now I can collect unemployment for something like 13 weeks and use that as collarteral for my new business (about $450/wk). The other awesome part is that I still get my full pay and benefits till the end of the month, so its basically a 15 day paid vacation where I get to finish up my licensing, really focus on setting up this business and be up and running by the end of December, and start pulling in the big money by Febuary/March. I have budgeted my money just off of this months pay and unemployment and I can easily make it till then(car projects put to the side of course). Even the wife chuckled at the situation.
Only thing that pisses me off is that this is the first time I have been fired from a job since I was like 13 yrs old. Kinda wanted to end it on my own terms, but oh well. I had pissed off upper management when I filed a Corrective Actions Item earlier this year about drunk drivers at a corporate event. We were down in Columbia, SC and had only two minivans with one registered driver a piece. They were both tanked by the end of the night (so was everyone else except for myself) at a corporate shin-dig. The drive to our hotel had me sweating. I had a teacher in high-school killed by a drunk driver and it is something I take very seriously. I considered it a situation adverse to safety which is what the "CAI"s are for. My boss at the time called me the next morning said I had pretty much killed my career and told me to delete the item if I wanted to have a chance at survival. I did but I guess it didn't do me any good. A couple months later they put me on this monitoring program to "improve my performance" along with a couple other people. All of my reports were fine until I wrote this one procedure, which although it was completed a day ahead of time, it went through 6-iterations before I got it to the point where the senior engineer would accept it. Still... finished ahead of time and under budget but guess that wasn't good enough. Once I had that "black mark" on there they called me into the meeting last night and canned me. It was the only black mark aside from a spelling mistake I had on an informal internal memo, which I corrected minutes after the fact.
Oh well... goodbye $55k/year job, hello $120k+/year job and temporary paid vacation :D
Life sure is funny sometimes.
I started to chuckle and was like "Huh... alright". He didn't seem to understand why I was so "stoic" (his word). He said he had done this hundreds of times before and most people wanted to puke by the time they got to the stairs that went up to the parking lot. He walked me out to my 2004 325xi and said "wow... nice car". I said "Thanks, its paid for." Gave him my ID badge, my parking badge and my corporate Am Ex card.
Then I drove off, got to the edge of the property got out of my car, took a piss, shaked twice, zipped up and then drove home.
The reason why I was laughing was because I was going to quit in two weeks any way to start my own business. Now I can collect unemployment for something like 13 weeks and use that as collarteral for my new business (about $450/wk). The other awesome part is that I still get my full pay and benefits till the end of the month, so its basically a 15 day paid vacation where I get to finish up my licensing, really focus on setting up this business and be up and running by the end of December, and start pulling in the big money by Febuary/March. I have budgeted my money just off of this months pay and unemployment and I can easily make it till then(car projects put to the side of course). Even the wife chuckled at the situation.
Only thing that pisses me off is that this is the first time I have been fired from a job since I was like 13 yrs old. Kinda wanted to end it on my own terms, but oh well. I had pissed off upper management when I filed a Corrective Actions Item earlier this year about drunk drivers at a corporate event. We were down in Columbia, SC and had only two minivans with one registered driver a piece. They were both tanked by the end of the night (so was everyone else except for myself) at a corporate shin-dig. The drive to our hotel had me sweating. I had a teacher in high-school killed by a drunk driver and it is something I take very seriously. I considered it a situation adverse to safety which is what the "CAI"s are for. My boss at the time called me the next morning said I had pretty much killed my career and told me to delete the item if I wanted to have a chance at survival. I did but I guess it didn't do me any good. A couple months later they put me on this monitoring program to "improve my performance" along with a couple other people. All of my reports were fine until I wrote this one procedure, which although it was completed a day ahead of time, it went through 6-iterations before I got it to the point where the senior engineer would accept it. Still... finished ahead of time and under budget but guess that wasn't good enough. Once I had that "black mark" on there they called me into the meeting last night and canned me. It was the only black mark aside from a spelling mistake I had on an informal internal memo, which I corrected minutes after the fact.
Oh well... goodbye $55k/year job, hello $120k+/year job and temporary paid vacation :D
Life sure is funny sometimes.
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