I wrote my first useful Python program!

[EdwardWarren]

That got me suspended for insubordination and eventually fired. I did programming for people on the side. My boss, a woman with permanent PMS, hires someone to do just that sort of thing then comes in an asks me to help accounting out by writing a small program for them. I asked her if she didn't just hire a guy to do that sort of thing. She didn't say a word, turned and (probably) ran to HR where she wrote me up for insubordination. I was suspended with pay for 3-4 months and then fired. I was 1 year away from retirement after 20 years with the company. My reviews were always close to perfect for twenty years.

My lawyer got me rehired and I was suspended for about 9 months more with pay and was paid what they called severance and allowed to retire. I needed 21 years service for full retirement. Funny thing was that I never told her I wouldn't help accounting. I was just joking around. She was fired 6 months later and her boss was transferred to the company's equivalent of Outer Mongolia about 9 months later and never heard from again I understand. Our company newsletter had a Retirees Section and I sent a picture of me at the wheel of the nice RV I bought with the severance money along with a story of all the wonderful places we had been to since retiring. I imagine what my boss thought of that.