Karma in the Workplace: A Firing Story

Fired from my job, but received a years worth of pay and got my Boss fired. This happened in

the early 2010s, before modern advances in video editing and online content creation.

I was hired as a content creator for a university that wanted to use YouTube to launch

a branding campaign. The pay was low, and at the time video production was a slow,

labor-intensive process. On my second day, my manager presented my KPI: 85 videos,

each 3 to 10 minutes long, to be completed within 52 weeks. For a one-person

team, this was impossible. I was responsible for scripting, producing,

casting, filming, composing music, and editing. I had to use my