I’M FIRED! by Steve Nadis
If you blog, you could be putting more than your reputation for, say, “funny humor” on the line; you could be putting your job on the line. Just ask “NB,” a former Harvard University administrative coordinator who was fired for linking her work email with her personal blog, where she trashed her supervisors for being anal retentive control freaks, among other shortcomings. Wow! That’s a wake-up call. As a self-employed person who’s put a lot of self-deprecating material on this blog (far worse than what NB said, by the way), I could be fired any day now. Henceforth, I’m going to be more careful about what I say about myself and will try to accentuate the positive, assuming that leaves me enough to write about.
In that vein, I’d like to point out that, overall, it has been great working for myself. Although we’ve had our differences over the years, for the most part, we’ve managed to set those differences aside and focus on our common goals. Please disregard any negative comments I might have made about my employer. Instead, I’d like to stress that, once you get beyond his many faults, he’s really a tremendous guy with several distinctive attributes. If you give me a few days, I could even tell you what those attributes are.
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16:53:00
I assume Burt is away for the 4th. This is pretty sweet getting the first comment in! I won’t even try to provide the pithy humor Burt usually does, you can’t copy a master. Boy is he going to kick himself when he gets back, missing a entry titled "I’m Fired!"
Burt can’t hog the limelight always, so I’m glad you got your chance for the glory. You took full advantage of this rare opportunity and did not squander it as others might have.
Maybe Burt got fired? (Though I can’t see why, since his cumulative blogging time can’t add up to more than 30 seconds.)
Anyway, I’m very sad to see Snake surrendering his journalistic integrity to suck up to his boss. We all know you work for an abusive loud-mouthed cheapskate tyrant, Snake. Don’t let him take away what’s left of your self-respect and dignity.
Well put, Gatemouth. Your description of my "boss" pretty much hit it on the head. The only part I’m not sure about is "loud-mouthed," but I can vouch for the rest of it.