This brings back a memory. The only time I was fired "for cause". Summer after my freshman year at college, I was temping and got an assignment doing real estate purchase comps with a company in the East Bay. At the time, there were laser printers, but often printing sucked up CPU time and let's just say multitasking was still not a widespread thing.
I found myself tired of sitting around. I found a TSR / print spooler that would use RAM and offload the process of printing. This allowed me to keep working. My productivity (as a temp) was higher than many others including the person I was "reporting to" at the company.
They found the print spooler, labeled it "unapproved software", and I was walked out the door.
The funny thing is, a friend at the time (and I didn't realize it) was higher up in the management. He reached out to me on a multi-line BBS that was popular in the area and offered me a full time job a few days later. I was in school and obviously declined.
Working the rest of the summer for a Chemical Engineer in Martinez/Benecia ended up being incredibly more interesting. So it was a net win.
I found myself tired of sitting around. I found a TSR / print spooler that would use RAM and offload the process of printing. This allowed me to keep working. My productivity (as a temp) was higher than many others including the person I was "reporting to" at the company.
They found the print spooler, labeled it "unapproved software", and I was walked out the door.
The funny thing is, a friend at the time (and I didn't realize it) was higher up in the management. He reached out to me on a multi-line BBS that was popular in the area and offered me a full time job a few days later. I was in school and obviously declined.
Working the rest of the summer for a Chemical Engineer in Martinez/Benecia ended up being incredibly more interesting. So it was a net win.