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or unemployment, severance pay, and anything else they’re willing to give you before they escort you out of the building.</p><p id="9603">Hunchback of Notre Dame disability will be covered in a later story.</p><h2 id="d42d">What is Fight Club fired?</h2> <figure id="e5ae"> <div> <div> <img class="ratio" src="http://placehold.it/16x9"> <iframe class="" src="https://cdn.embedly.com/widgets/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2F6pJC0FLA3Sk%3Ffeature%3Doembed&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D6pJC0FLA3Sk&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2F6pJC0FLA3Sk%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;key=a19fcc184b9711e1b4764040d3dc5c07&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" width="480"> </div> </div> </figure></iframe></div></div></figure><p id="fd43">In the 1999 David Fincher movie adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel by the same name starring Brad Pitt, <i>Fight Club</i>, the narrator played by Ed Norton is about to get fired.</p><p id="dde4">Instead, he kicks his own ass and frames his boss.</p><p id="bd41">Fight Club fired is where they let you go but your employer feels bad about it. This empathy can include severance. Most importantly they don’t fight your unemployment claim.</p><p id="0dbd">Fight Club fired doesn’t have to be this extreme, but the name works and the phrase is conveniently an alliteration.</p><h2 id="7c7b">How to get Fight Club fired without kicking your own ass</h2><p id="af81">The key is sudden psychotic behavior. No ramp-up, just instant zero-to-crazy one day when you walk into the office.</p><p id="4ca1">You want a multifaceted psychotic break. It needs to seem so severe that a year later you can tell everyone that it was a brain tumor or a B12 deficiency if you run into them at the grocery store.</p><p id="a54f">I suggest utilizing the 3 V’s</p><ul><li><b>visual — </b>You want your actions to get across that you’ve lost your shit. You need a large grandiose display. Bring 50 cans of baked beans to work and stack them in a large pyramid on your desk. Start praying loudly in tongues to them randomly during the day while reorganizing the large pyramid into smaller ones. If anyone says anything to you threaten to tell HR that they’re employing a fascist who’s trying to persecute a minority religion’s religious beliefs.</li><li><b>virtual</b> — There needs to be something only you can see and no one else. A little girl standing across the street staring into the window works well. Keep calling over your co-workers and force them to look out the window until they say they see it too. Then an hour later say it’s back. Accuse people of using spy cameras in the bathroom because someone keeps posting pictures of your genitals online and demand to know who it is in an all-hands meeting.</li><li><b>Vyvanse — </b>an ADHD medication. Use as directed unless you're trying to get Fight Club fired. It adds to the mania look with the sweating and bulging veins. You don’t have to do this one, but I like to incorporate it into my regimen to be sure I’m out of there by Friday.</li></ul

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FIRST RULE IS YOU MUST MAKE A FIRST RULE JOKE

Forget Quiet Quitting, Fight Club Fired is The New Hotness

I’m breaking first rule of Fight Club to give you the deets

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The hottest buzzword in the personal development blogosphere right now is quiet quitting. The phrase echoes the sentiment of today’s young workforce who have become disillusioned with the ideal that hard work will eventually pay off.

If you haven’t read one of the thousands of stories on Medium about it, quiet quitting is doing the bare minimum required at a job to not get fired. Also known as setting boundaries.

I used to quiet quit every job on the first day. Being the white guy, I still got the promotion and raise. With experience, I learned that you can either be the fucker or fuckee. I’d rather be the one doing the fucking, and that’s what getting Fight Club fired is all about.

Quiet Quitting < Fight Club fired

Quiet quit today. Go ahead. You’re still at work.

Why spend another week of your life surrounded by:

  • People who don’t think they have COVID but haven’t taken a test
  • Signing birthday cards being passed around for people that you’d rather be dead
  • Watching that person who defiantly has COVID blow out the candles on their cake
  • Everyone in the department lining up for a piece of COVID spitty cake.
  • You’re still wasting months of your life stuck in meetings that could have been emails.

Fight Club fired is a more extreme variety of quiet quitting and has been around since labor laws have made it illegal to fire an employee without due cause.

In quiet quitting, you're doing the bare minimum not to get fired.

The object of being Fight Club fired is… Wait for it. To get fired.

Fight Club fired

It’s a new term I made up. I’ve been trying to figure out a satire of quiet quitting for months. This morning, boom.

I’m bringing Fight Club fired into the zeitgeist. Getting fired on purpose is nothing new. I just coined a new term for it.

Do I keep capitalizing it? Kinda weird to change it halfway through a story. I say Fight Club fired capitalization remains the same.

Fight Club fired is currently pending approval on Urban Dictionary.

Why would I want to Be Fired?

You drive a car less than 7 years old, live in a dwelling with 4 walls and a roof where you have legal jurisdiction to live that has a postal address, and subscribe to a half dozen streaming services.

That’s cool, but what’s the point of having all that stuff if you never get to enjoy it?

Getting Fight Club fired allows you to continue to earn an income without needing to deal with the daily bullshit at work.

You don’t need to go to work, but you still get paid. You could be eligible for unemployment, severance pay, and anything else they’re willing to give you before they escort you out of the building.

Hunchback of Notre Dame disability will be covered in a later story.

What is Fight Club fired?

In the 1999 David Fincher movie adapted from Chuck Palahniuk’s 1996 novel by the same name starring Brad Pitt, Fight Club, the narrator played by Ed Norton is about to get fired.

Instead, he kicks his own ass and frames his boss.

Fight Club fired is where they let you go but your employer feels bad about it. This empathy can include severance. Most importantly they don’t fight your unemployment claim.

Fight Club fired doesn’t have to be this extreme, but the name works and the phrase is conveniently an alliteration.

How to get Fight Club fired without kicking your own ass

The key is sudden psychotic behavior. No ramp-up, just instant zero-to-crazy one day when you walk into the office.

You want a multifaceted psychotic break. It needs to seem so severe that a year later you can tell everyone that it was a brain tumor or a B12 deficiency if you run into them at the grocery store.

I suggest utilizing the 3 V’s

  • visual — You want your actions to get across that you’ve lost your shit. You need a large grandiose display. Bring 50 cans of baked beans to work and stack them in a large pyramid on your desk. Start praying loudly in tongues to them randomly during the day while reorganizing the large pyramid into smaller ones. If anyone says anything to you threaten to tell HR that they’re employing a fascist who’s trying to persecute a minority religion’s religious beliefs.
  • virtual — There needs to be something only you can see and no one else. A little girl standing across the street staring into the window works well. Keep calling over your co-workers and force them to look out the window until they say they see it too. Then an hour later say it’s back. Accuse people of using spy cameras in the bathroom because someone keeps posting pictures of your genitals online and demand to know who it is in an all-hands meeting.
  • Vyvanse — an ADHD medication. Use as directed unless you're trying to get Fight Club fired. It adds to the mania look with the sweating and bulging veins. You don’t have to do this one, but I like to incorporate it into my regimen to be sure I’m out of there by Friday.

What to do after being Fight Club fired

Out of money? Better get a job. You need to stay employed for six months at a time to get unemployment again. After six months you can bring in the cans of beans from the last job you fired from and stack away.

Unless you ate them while unemployed.

Fight Club fired story takeaways:

  1. Fight Club fired stories > quiet quitting articles
  2. Not so crazy that they call the police to and put you under a 72-hour psych hold, but crazy enough that nobody wants to work in the same office as you.
  3. You don’t need to kick your own ass, but you can. It works without your boss being in the room. Someone just needs to see you doing it.
  4. Don’t forget to steal office supplies the day before.
  5. This was all satire. For the love of God, don’t do any of this. Though all of this is based on things I’ve seen. Mental illness is no laughing matter. Anyone who chortled audibly while reading this is a terrible person.

Here are some more of my stories. Read them. Or you could click on that tip button. Either one.

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