True Story©… You’re Fired!
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Not to let anyone in on more than they need to know about me, but in my adult-adult life, I have worked full time for three companies. I will not name any of the three, but you’ve assuredly heard of all of them. I will cross fourteen years with my current employer next week. More importantly – to me at least – each of my prior two company changes was of my own volition and I was not removed from the premises by any security folks for cause or anything such. One benefit of being consistent with a place of employment is the accrual of leave time. With my first real full-time (as in with a company that I didn’t work for when I was 18 and actually offered benefits) employer there was no expiration of leave time and I was so busy with school that I never had time to be far enough away to warrant taking time off for any real reason. A couple of years in, I found myself staring at WEEKS of accumulated off time and no real reason to use it. Add to that the fact that I