How I Worked Myself out of a Job

Tim Gebauer
3 min readJul 28, 2020
How I worked myself out of a job. Leaving a place better than I found it. Being fired, terminated.
Photo by Mantas Hesthaven on Unsplash

Being called to the home office and asked to meet on the floor that houses HR were bad omens. That sick feeling turned out to be exactly right. It wasn’t totally surprising, events of the past few months had changed the entire makeup of the organization. Turns out I had managed to make myself unnecessary.

There was conversation, paperwork, sad faces and all that. The mix of emotions in that moment were too…

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Tim Gebauer

Thrift and retail blogger. Helping small business succeed. Connect on linkedIn, my thrift reseller blog thethrifter or my amazon thrift merchandising e-book.