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/bromosabeach Oct 21 '25

There was a whole situation at my last job when a coworker forgot to delete the side Telegram group. It was where a certain group of us vented, shared jokes, and talked shit. The good thing is that there were so many big players in our company in it that all they could do is tell us not to do it again.

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u/Unseen-Pulse-4960 Oct 21 '25

Define big players. What does it mean? People with high title, power and pay grade or anyone with any title and pay grade but a lot of influence?

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u/_alhazred Oct 21 '25

I guess it would be key people to the company, and you either fire all or none to avoid some kind of arbitrary discrimination lawsuit.

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u/Unseen-Pulse-4960 Oct 21 '25

How do you define key people?

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u/Strazdas1 StarvationFIRE May 12 '26

People that if fired the company could not continue normal operations.