I am (was) an appliance installation guy, I got in with this company from a dude I played football with in high school. He’s the lead install man there. I had construction experience for the past 3 years so he wanted me for my tool experience yada yada yada. He thought I would be a good fit for the job. So I took it, and he started me off high in terms of pay hoping I would stay. This is beginning of January this year. My first week, I get bit by a customers dog while I’m carrying their refrigerator on the dolly. I’m on a blood thinner, so I go to the urgent care to get taken care of. From this point on, I ask if we can tell customers to please put their dogs away while we’re working in their home. I bring this up to our boss and he’s totally cool with it. Most people at this point agree with me that it’s common courtesy for customers to do this anyway. The problem is, the lead install guy who got me the job is a dog lover. He himself owns two pit bulls who he loves to death. He feels that it’s RUDE of me to ask customers to put their dogs away, and he refuses to do it himself. So I continue to do this since the boss is okay with it, and I’m not trying to get bit again by somebody’s 200lb mastiff. At this point my anxiety is high around large dogs. Weeks go on and he becomes visibly irritated by me asking customers to politely put their dogs away before we come in. Today at the end of the day, he tells me that he’s letting me go. His words were “it sucks man, you’re a good worker and you pick up really fast but I can’t have you be afraid to go into somebody’s house who has a big dog. I think that we are doing our customers a disservice by asking them to put them away.” I ask him if this is seriously the only reason he’s letting me go, that there has to be something else. He says yes this is it. I am honestly baffled by this. The only reason he can have me fired is because he’s the lead install guy and has been with the company for 7 years, since we were in high school. I don’t see the big boss much, he basically just checks in with him and tells him how I am doing. I thought I was doing quite good otherwise, considering I have experience with more tools and was picking up fast. I even texted him when I got home, saying there has to be an underlying reason he wanted me gone. He hasn’t replied yet.