My boss didn't like me for some reason. Everybody else did. He tried to fire me, but the day after, he transferred, and both managers above him and those left below him were like "nah, we actually need you and I only ever see you work your ass off and help literally everybody and everybody relies on you".

Story is much more dramatic and deep, but this is the short public version. Also, when I quit, the manager that trained me threw me a low key pizza party on the clock out of pocket, and I found out months later that several people I worked with, all quit after I left.

I Loved so much about that job. The people were all amazing. So was operating forklift and being able to actually help people.

When my boss pulled me into the manager office and told me I wasn't the right fit for the job, I asked why. When he didn't have any good reason, and the reasons he gave were either outright false (he seemed to think at some point I cussed out a manager - I did not, and actually it was that manager that did that to me for no good reason) or were groundless (I occasionally disagreed with decisions, but did what was asked anyway), I remember seeing red and just saying "that's unacceptable". His face was dumbstruck, and the witness manager (who liked me) just made a 😳 face. He had nothing. And then it turns out he was just trying to shit on me before leaving the next day.

To this day, I still don't actually know why that guy didn't like me. If I did, I honestly probably would have tried to fix it. But because that was either unrelated to me or he failed to communicate, I'll forever just think the guy was an egotistical asshole who used me to get fat bonuses and then tried to ruin my life (I was barely scraping by, and if I lost that job, I'd be immediately homeless again).

What stopped me from being fired?

Having friends all over, including in high places. Having a reputation for working my ass off. Standing up for myself and others. Basically, trying my best to be a good person to everybody and have a spine. Being critical to daily operations helped a lot, too - I did a lot of stuff nobody else wanted to do because my previous jobs were wayyyy worse and so the work there was like a cakewalk.