Actually, I was quite glad to get fired from that job. I don't think I've ever been so elated to receive bad news.

Imagine this: the head manager was the one who had to fire me. They needed a second manager to witness the firing, and in the middle of the whole thing, he began crying. I wound up having to comfort him. Talking to him later, they had not told him or any of the other managers what was happening. Maybe because I was fired because the company had not been supplying me the health insurance I had been paying for, amoung other things. I was also one of their buyers; the firing came the day after they had gotten a computer ordering system up and running. Go figure.

Obviously, not working for these fools is one of the best things ever to happen to me.

I feel for you, though. My friend who runs Deep Groove used to work for Plan 9. The Nine used to have seven or eight stores. Now they have two. He had to let go the people at the other six, and he said it was the worst and most dehumanizing thing he had ever done. He seems much happier running his little and excellent shop.