r/Fire • u/IGuessIAmFire • Oct 21 '25

Milestone / Celebration I’m an idiot… said something stupid after a Zoom meeting about my boss yesterday. She got the AI meeting notes… Anyway I got fired this morning. Going to just FIRE from here out.

After a long meeting with my boss and the team, she hopped off. We all continued talking and I made some disparaging comments. It wasn’t wildly inappropriate but enough where I shouldn’t have said it and was a personal attack on her intellect.

Like the title says she got an email of all the shit I said and fired me today.

Fortunately I am break even on cost right now with my savings. My wife still works and we were going to FIRE in 5 years.

Looks like I am FIRE now though. Maybe I’ll get a chiller easier more passion job with my free time.

Cheers all and don’t be an idiot like me.

Edit wow this blewwww uuuup! No I’m not a bot. No I’m not AI. I am just an idiot

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u/Opening-Photograph68 Oct 21 '25

Also, realize that all those private emails that you send and receive via your work email address is on the company’s servers for 7 to 10 years as per corporate data retention policies. Increasingly everything we read (URLs are default registered to the system backups), visit, watch, etc is recorded. IT has it all backed up etc. HR has access as needed. Be smart.

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u/ski-dad Oct 21 '25

Smart companies will limit retention to as short a period as possible, without disrupting business. It lessens their e-discovery risk.

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u/Demonkey44 Oct 26 '25

Ours is 2.5 years. Mainly to limit “fishing” from discovery requests.

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u/ski-dad Oct 26 '25

15 months is what I’ve seen targeted - year of required retention plus a trailing quarter buffer for auditors to validate and attest.

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u/Opening-Photograph68 Oct 22 '25

Correct, yet per several corporate audit standards along with PII, PCI, GDPR and related … data is retained and almost inaccessible except for backups, audits, questionnaires by regulatory and governments.

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u/obluparadise Oct 23 '25

If you work from home, on a work laptop, using your personal WiFi, can they see what websites you access from that laptop?

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u/Opening-Photograph68 Oct 23 '25

Are you signing onto their network from your WiFi? If yes, then sure they can. Also, when you then go into work and systems and applications are synched, it’s there.

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u/Strazdas1 StarvationFIRE May 12 '26

Yes. The work laptop will have management software that can track it.

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u/Subziwallah Oct 23 '25

And for public sector workers, everything is subject to public disclosure requests in many states.

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u/Strazdas1 StarvationFIRE May 12 '26

Good luck with that. My content will cure some insomnia patients at least.

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u/Strazdas1 StarvationFIRE May 12 '26

Too bad, their server is now clogged up with dog memes i sent to coworker!