I Got Fired Today

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The views of this article are the perspective of the author and may not be reflective of Confessions of the Professions.

I walked into work this morning at about 8:53 this morning and was surprisingly greeted by my V.P.

I thought to myself, “That’s odd… I didn’t even know he knew I still work here?” He asked me if I knew what time it was because I am normally scheduled to be there at 8am Monday-Friday. I replied, “No, a lion attacked me on the way into work this morning. Lost my watch in the struggle. Enough about me, how can I be of assistance to you today, Mr. (****)?”

Needless to say, he didn’t find my explanation very endearing :-/

Next thing I knew, I get pulled into the conference room. Thought to myself, “Geesh, I wonder what this is about?” Walked into the room and saw my direct boss and all his lovely cohorts. They presented me my last four annual reviews and wished to go over them in detail. Naturally, I started laughing because of things I wrote in the past. Didn’t know they actually read them? My boss revisited one of them that I wrote in 2007 where I am supposed to comment in the section of “Employee’s Greatest Accomplishments”. He read it off, “I got the Supervisor/Manager in the deli [downstairs] to start carrying V8 juice.”

I laughed and told them to cut to the chase. Whadya know? They had termination papers for me to sign. “Sure.” A couple handshakes and then asked for a small box to pack my belongings. They obliged.

Got back to my cubicle w/one of those white Office Max “On-the-Go” file boxes and packed five years worth of stuff. For the last time, I sat in my squeaky chair that never fit me right in all the years I’d been there. Only reason I kept it was because I knew the sound annoyed the shit out of my cubemate. In fact, one day he tried to mace it with WD-40. I lied and told him that I am severly allergic to it. He pouted for me to get a new chair and mumbled a couple swear words. I giggled so hard inside my head to a point that my face turned red. I just blamed the redness on the sight of the WD-40 can.

Anyhow, back to my packing… found a lot of nothing. It hit me that I never really did “set up shop” like everyone else there at work had. You go into some cubes where the ladies have fuzzy arm sleeves for their chairs, hand-knitted blankets for their lap, a plethora of family/friends photos, personal lamps, small fish bowls, and enough plants sitting around to open up a plant nursery. Me? Well, I found the belongings that I had accumulated over five years:

*Microwave pop-corn (take your pick, I have 4 flavors ranging from “Movie Theatre Butter” to Kettle!)
*43 packets of Taco Bell’s Mild sauce
*12 packets of Morton’s Salt
*5 packets of pepper
*3 packets of mustard
*1 can of Campell’s Chunky Beef Barley
*3 Cup of Noodles (beef flavor)
*2 Top Ramen Packs (beef flavor again)
*a box of Quaker Oatmeal “Weight Control” (yeah, no interest… lady a work gave it to me 2 yrs ago)
*4 boxes of Girl Scout cookies that I bought months ago (Thin Mint, Samoas, Peanut Butter Patties)
*1 white bowl and tons of plasticware
*and finally, travel and financial magazines dating back to 2006.

Yep, that’s it folks! No pictures, no plants, no fish. Oh, wait… I have one last item I found that hit a soft spot… it’s Christmas ornament that was given to me by a co-worker last year. He gives them out every year and they’re kinda cute considering he’s a big Samoan dude w/a tribe of pooh-pooh makers at home. They make them out of clothes pins.

Moral of my story: Don’t eat too much red meat and salty foods – leads to kidney stones.

PS: Let me know if you’re hiring 🙂