Hi William, I'm sorry to hear about your situation. One thing I've learned in life is that people will ask all kinds of unreasonable things of you. There's n

Hi William, I'm sorry to hear about your situation. One thing I've learned in life is that people will ask all kinds of unreasonable things of you. There's no need to get upset with them. A simple "No, I can't do that" is a perfectly acceptable answer. While your point was valid, I suspect it was the way you said it that lead to you getting fired. You said you mentioned it was "maddening and silly." There's no need to get mad. You can't control what other people will say. You can only control your reaction to it. If you had just suggested that the program might be more efficient if employees shared in the monetary savings and left it at that, I would guess that there would have been some discussion and maybe something positive would have come out of it. Instead, you insulted people who had probably put a lot of thought into this program so of course they felt humiliated and used their power to get revenge. Yes, I know it's petty but many people are like that. I was presented with something similar at work once. I won't go into the details but basically the company was hoping we would use our free time to create something that they would basically take ownership of. When the manager got done explaining it and asked me what I thought, I just said "I'll think about it" but I knew I would never do it. It was never brought up again. The same thing probably would have happened with this program. In a week, all the managers would have forgotten about it and moved on to one of their other hair-brained ideas. I know you're in a difficult situation right now. I don't know your area but you could probably get an $8/hr job just walking down the street. I hope this turns into a blessing in disguise for you. It's a good lesson to learn. Better to be fired from an $8/hr job for this than an $80/hr job.