Earlier this week I was fired by my job of 2 1/2 years within 45 minutes of suffering an injury that required workers comp. I got the call while sitting in the urgent care waiting room. They claimed that my history of “multiple workplace injuries” makes me too much of a “liability.” Not even getting into the fact that my “multiple injuries” aren’t atypical given the line of work and the fact that this workplace blatantly disregards OSHA regulations at every turn, this is an illegal reason to fire someone, even in an employment-at-will state like mine. Nevertheless, I’ve been rejected by multiple employment law firms and even the state department of labor has yet to respond to my inquiry about filing a REDA complaint. The decision to fire me was made by one person at the head of the company and nobody was allowed to disagree with it. People tend to prop up the virtues of “small business owners” or the “entrepreneurial middle class” as if they can’t kick you in the teeth all the same because they know that you have no recourse to do anything about it. Needless to say I’ve learned my lesson in the worst way possible. Fuck owners, fuck managers, fuck “Human Resources” and fuck the notion of ever being loyal to a company that wouldn’t hesitate to have you clipped if they thought there was a possibility you might be hurting their bottom line.