# Ever been fired or had to fire someone?

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 10, 2015, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-fired-or-had-to-fire-someone/730569 "2015-09-10T21:16:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2015, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ever-been-fired-or-had-to-fire-someone/730569/41 "2015-09-12T01:28:26Z")

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I’ve been fired several times. Oddly enough, each time I ended up with a better job.

The first time, it was a sales job and I wasn’t making any sales (I’m OK as a retail sales, but not with ad sales).

The next two I was working for a nonprofit and the funding for my position ended.

I did software documentation for a startup and was fired because they didn’t like my work. That pissed me off because the example they gave me was a quick and dirty unedited first draft that I did as a favor to my boss (who was gone by then).

The next time, it was a small graphics firm that was starting to lose money. I was their computer expert, but they needed to cut back.

Finally, I was doing desktop publishing, but my boss left (to marry the company president) and the new boss didn’t like me. I was moved to another division and they finally laid me off (with decent severance, though).

In all cases, I’d be called into the boss’s office on a Friday afternoon to get the news. I became gun-shy of that sort of meeting.

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