I'm thrilled to report I was fired yesterday. I had already gotten the written offer from my new job to start training at the end of the month. I let the current job fire me so I could enjoy getting unemployment for the month. I took the remainder of my vacation/sick time last week and got my expense reports done over the weekend. (About $5k due to me for the past six months.)

The boss told me that 'we needed to talk' Monday morning. He was so negative while telling me he is a really optimistic person and how he focuses on 'coaching' his team. (I had the phone on speakerphone/mute and was laughing my rear-end off.)

He kept rambling on and on. After about 20 minutes of listening to him, I interrupted him and asked "Dave, what are you trying to say?" He replied "I don't think this is working out."

I said "Okay."

He said "I'll be happy to be a reference for your job search."

I said "That won't be necessary. I accepted another position last week."

Long pause.

So I said "I've forwarded my expense reports to you and I'll send back the company equipment."

He stammers "We'll send your final checks when we get the stuff back."

I did a happy dance.

Another co-worker got canned last week - he hadn't closed any business in the 6 months since we went through training together. The dude called me constantly on Friday (when he got the boot). And again yesterday. We weren't 'buds' while we worked there, why would we suddenly become tight over the fact we were both former employees?

The new job is certainly going tto be a challenge - well - the new boss will be - my goal is to kick butt from the get-go so he'll back down.