A Short Essay on Being Fired

<blockquote> <p>Freedom&rsquo;s just another word for nothing left to lose. -Janis Joplin, Me and Bobby McGee</p> </blockquote> <p>I feel a voluminous calmness now.</p> <h1>I &ldquo;lost&rdquo; my job yesterday. Except, I didn&rsquo;t lose it. I gave it back.</h1> <p>They actually asked me &mdash; after firing me &mdash; to provide them an SOP of how I do the job so they could have my coworkers follow it.</p> <p>When I was recruited, it was as a team lead. Upon being hired, they changed that and then told I am the same as everyone else, the same but expected to do more.</p> <p>I was lateral and when I said we needed a concurrence from the boss on the services we offered, I was told, &ldquo;I thought you were all professionals&rdquo;.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>&ldquo;I thought you were all professionals&rdquo;</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>Hell no I&rsquo;m not working for you.</p> <p>I actually wrote the job description when being recruited a<strong>nd then was told that it doesn&#39;t matter what&rsquo;s in the job description</strong>. It has been humiliating.</p> <blockquote> <p><strong>It has been humiliating.</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>My CV looks like crap. I&rsquo;ve been bouncing around for two years now. But I&rsquo;m following my intuition and my unhappiness led me here to Medium, which is a platform that saved my life and provided me a kinship with other writers, many of them powerful poets and alchemists.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@skyqueen/a-short-essay-on-being-fired-bb5ed5e3a35b"><strong>Visit Now</strong></a></p>
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