The day I was almost fired

And what happened next.

I was about to be fired, I could feel it burning in the air. Scorched into the atmosphere, written in his angry bloodshot eyes.

This was going to hurt us badly.

The year was 2011. It was 2 months before my son was born and I was the single income earner in our very young and new family.

My commute to and from work was across 3 freeways in the traffic-jam…