FIRED! again, and again, and again....

By Joshua Thomas Rankin

This book is for people who laugh during HR meetings and then spend the next six months explaining themselves.

It is a collection of true stories about saying the wrong thing in the right tone, doing the correct thing for the wrong reason, and discovering that intent is mostly decorative once paperwork gets involved. Airports, offices, courtrooms, sales floors, family kitchens. Places where language is supposed to behave. It does not.

These essays live in the space between technically accurate and emotionally catastrophic. A joke about Parkinson's. A vowel that betrays you. A whiteboard drawing that becomes a career event. A sale that works only because the price is insulting at first. Authority figures who nod gravely while missing the point entirely.

The humor is sharp, self-incriminating, and allergic to redemption arcs. Nobody learns the right lesson. Nobody becomes a better person. People survive, policies are enforced, and stories get written down wrong and follow you anyway.

If you have ever been misunderstood, over-documented, or quietly proud of a moment you absolutely should not be proud of, this book is for you.

Read it if you have a sense of humor.

Especially if you have been told that is the problem.
JTR

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GK6X7RGQ
• ISBN13: 9798245865706
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.7" x 9.6"