Fired

So we have all been there, when work has decided to let our services go. This happened to a good friend of mine recently and it was like watching a range of emotions pass by me at lightening speed, from anger, disappointment and general panic as to what would happen. Then the amazing emergence of someone who had decided it wasnt so bad after all. So this is one for them.

It was going so well or so I thought,

I was getting productive

and being a team playing sport

I put up with the boredom

I put up with the boss

And always smiled sweetly

to get through daily dross

So for you to stand quietly

and mutter under you breath

that realistically I only would have two weeks left

I felt slightly stabbed in the back and the heart

That me and my job would soon be apart

'Dont worry to return after your break'

As if I would come back after this for goodness sake

To work out a week whilst being watched by the rest

To stand there and think wether to give it my best.

And for what would I be doing

Apart from trying to remain calm

When all I want to do is punch the boss in the arm.

So now I stand here thinking what to do next

And this great unknown is pounding at my chest

I take a deep breath and think, okay this might be hard

But I will make it work, but I will play my own card

So whilst I stand here holding my own P45

This could be an opportunity to take back my life

All the things I have hoped to do but not done yet

And all the things I postponed and stopped with regret

Because I was working too hard and being bosses pet

So not only do I hold the end of an era

I think I will cherish the one thats mine drawing nearer

If any one reading this has been affected by redundancy then the link with the title should help you find which way to go.