Black Thursday

On September 30th, 2010, I was fired. No warning or notice. No built-up vacation time or severance package. Just a swift kick out the door to join the ranks of the desolate that surround me. It may not seem altogether newsworthy; people are fired all the time. But this case is a bit different. After all, it's hard to be fired when you never had a job to begin with. But that's exactly what happened to me.