People who quit their jobs in a blaze of glory. What's your story?

I used to work recording concerts for a school conservatory.

Basically, students would pay a fee for the conservatory to record their concerts and put them on CD for them.

I had had the job as a work study since I was a call from my boss saying that I messed up on a CD and that I needed

to meet with him in the studio to fix it at 4 p.m. I thought it was an odd request. Mistakes sometimes

happen, but all of the employees knew how to fix them themselves, and I was the most experienced

worker that they had at that point. I asked if I could just fix it earlier and submit it to

the office assistant, but he insisted I come in at 4. I showed if I could just fix it earlier and submit it to the office assistant, but he

insisted I come in at four. I showed up about 15 minutes before four to figure out what had gone

wrong. I put the CD in and immediately could hear that it was a CD of a completely different

concert. That was really bizarre, but we have backups of all the audio, so I just burned another

CD of the correct concert from that.

As the CD was burning, my boss came in and told me that I was fired.

He told me, screwing up a CD that badly was unacceptable.

I had never been fired before.

This was the longest job I had ever had, and I was totally blindsided. To this day,

I have no idea how the wrong concert ended up on that CD. The best I could figure is that

the office assistant mixed up the CDs or something, but whoever's fault it was, it had a really

easy problem to fix. I argued with him for a bit by telling him that I thought he was making a big mistake, and this really wasn't a huge deal. But he refused to fix. I argued with him for a bit by telling him that I thought he was making a big mistake,

and this really wasn't a huge deal. But he refused to listen. Just when I resigned myself to my fate,

the newly burned CD popped out of the computer. We both look at it for five seconds in silence.

Then I laughed, handed it to him, and shook his hand, and then walked out the door.

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