By Rob Basso on
9/29/2011 11:42 AM
I was fired from a few jobs as a teenager. Fortunately, I also never had a problem getting a job. It was clear I was not the easiest employee to deal with. In my youth, I thought I knew better than my supervisors, the owners or basically anyone else in charge. One summer, when working in the kitchen of a pizzeria, I attempted to tell the pizza maker — with his 10 years of experience — how to do something better than the way he was doing it. He did not appreciate my input and tried to smack me with a spatula. Luckily he missed, but we did get into a shoving match right there in the kitchen...