Most Interesting Way I've Ever Learned I've Been Fired

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If you're young and just looking for a first job, let me give you some advice to keep in the back of your mind: you ARE going to get fired. We've all faced that terrible fact of life: the office is downsizing and you're expendable all of the sudden; the boss has a relative who needs a job (like Don Fanucci in The Godfather Part II) and you're the unlucky person who has to go, or whatever. Don't take it personally, it's going to happen. I've had a number of jobs lost to one reason or another (most of which were listed above). Given that I have several health issues, a number of those lost jobs have been due to time missed. I understand that. I'm thankful that I have things to fall back on so I don't have to make the decision of "work or my health." Today I discovered that my current job is history. I found out in unquestionably the most interesting manner in which I've ever learned about a dismissal. I've worked at temp agencies off and on for the past 30 years. I'm still signed up with a temp agency, although I wasn't able to work much from them last year because of a broken ankle and several bouts of bronchitis. However, one of the jobs they did send me on was as a data entry clerk at the place I am now employed. That's how my employer found me: they were impressed with my work and offered me a full-time job. Today the temp agency called and asked if I wanted to work a one-day assignment....at the place I'm currently working. I had to miss all of Monday because of the fiasco at the VA hospital, and I had to leave early today for another VA appointment (and I have a third tomorrow afternoon, and yet another appointment on Tuesday). Apparently the owner of the business (it's a very small office) has said "enough" and called the temp agency to find a replacement for me. Little did he know that the replacement the temp agency would pick for me would be....ME!!!! I understand their predicament. I'm not bitter or angry. I'll take a bag to work tomorrow so I can clean my desk out. Once I get my medical issues sorted out at the VA I'll go back to the temp agency. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying the laugh.