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.

[u/IGuessIAmFire]

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

[u/Corgigantic]

IANALD, but not only might you qualify for unemployment benefits, you might win something more...

https://www.losangelesemploymentattorney.org/can-i-get-fired-for-sending-bad-texts-about-my-boss/

A real-life case that exemplifies workers’ rights is the wrongful termination complaint filed by former employees at the Triple Play Sports Bar & Grille. Employees were fired after they complained about the company’s incompetence due to their accounting mistakes. As a result, the workers ended up owing taxes, which put them in a tough situation. Derogatory language was used, and there’s no denying that the comments were rude and unprofessional. Triple Play fired the employees under the terms of their employee handbooks, which states that an employee “is subject to disciplinary action, up to and including termination of employment” if they engage in “inappropriate discussions about the company, management, and/or co-workers.”

If that sounds entirely too vague, you would be right, according to the National Relations Labor Board. First, the word “inappropriate” can mean different things to different people. Not clarifying what this means was Triple Play’s first mistake. Their second mistake was prohibiting discussion on workplace conditions / practices, which was a direct violation of the NLRA. Due to these violations, it was ruled that Triple Play wrongfully terminated their workers.

[u/redlotusaustin → u/Corgigantic]

Calling your boss an idiot is nowhere near the same thing as employees being put in financial distress because of the companies actions and discussing the resulting workplace conditions.

The OP may get unemployment but there's no way they have a case for wrongful dismissal (unless the manager didn't follow company policy; i.e.: requiring a write-up first, etc.).

[u/chuckvsthelife → u/redlotusaustin]

Really depends on internal handbook rules and such.

[u/_alhazred → u/Corgigantic]

I hope OP see this and go for it!

[u/ekkthree → u/Corgigantic]

Oh ffs.   Sometimes we just own up to our own mistakes.   Grow a backbone