Never been fired! Lucky you. It is such a humbling experience. Once I had a job, had just received a pay raise and a great review and was fired by a supervisor who when I asked her why, she said smiling: "Because nobody likes you." WOW! Seriously, it actually was not true, some people did like me : ) but this woman had a habit of setting people up and had told myself and my colleague that it was between the two of us who would be promoted to fill the position of our boss who had just left. After my now *rival* colleague stopped talking to me, which was a shock, I mean not responding to anything I said and we had been friendly! I told my supervisor I was not interested in the position that I was content to stay where I was just happily editing copy. It was after that that the hammer came down and oh I was so naive, I had thought I had done a good thing by stepping down that now everybody would be happy and we could all simply *work.* It was pretty hard to take because I really loved that job and I would have fought it but when weighed in the scheme of things it didn’t tilt in that direction and truthfully sometimes you really *do* have to take it on the chin & just go.

Lucky you, Candice.  But some to think about it, I have never gotten "fired" per se, either - I have been "let go" in one way or another - and had jobs dropped just when I thought they were mine - (ouch!) But in shoz biz jobs have a tendency to melt away rather than resorting to firing.