Cycled into work last Tuesday morning, took three calls, wondered why the calls dried up... Yup, totally fired; on 6/6/06 no less. I can't say that I'm surprised, angry, or otherwise upset. The pay was good, and money is a requisite for life in a capatalaist society, but in the end it was simply a job; I was not planning on answering phone calls as a career. However, it is good to know that my job perfromance was satisfactory to the extent that a budget shortfall was the determining factor in my dismissal.