Got Fired? It Could Be Worse

General Artists Corporation (management); photographer: Maurice Seymour, Chicago., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Your boss just fired you. Either you angered a superior or the company is cutting expenses or it is somewhere in between. Maybe you have severance pay or maybe not but before you go into a deep depression do know that it could be worse.

Now I know that is supposedly the worst thing you can say to someone in your position but trust me, it could be worse. You could have been fired like Arthur Godfrey fired Julius…