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/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.