These were the words of my dear friend and mentor.  I pass them on to you for very good reason.  Poisonous people can really damage your efforts to go beyond mediocrity.  A sore lesson has been learned!  My WA promotional site is now out of operation.  The story and the lesson below...

My Job Again!

Yes, today was another awful day at work!  It was the worst day yet!

I can't put all the details in here of the day because it would be too long, but one thing led to another.  I got reamed out by my boss again for stupid things!  Something happened today that was not even my fault but it left me wide open for a hashing!

In the anxiety of the moment I accidentally called my boss "Don" again.  Wasn't thinking, and it slipped out!  Before I knew what I had said he suddenly said, 

"You're Fired! "

I evidently slipped up because "I've got no respect for my boss...and think I'm better than he is."  This is what led to the website.  He had read my writing on it and concluded that I thought I was better than other people...including him.  It was a long bash-out until I had to admit that he was better than I, and that I am a hypocrite.  I am not very smart and think I'm something better than I actually am.

Instead of firing me, he riddled my mind with his controlling machine gun and then told me to get out there and wash cars.

So if it makes him feel better, I had to remove my website to shut him up...if that even does.

Is My Website Really Out of Operation?

For now, yes.  But it is not removed from the Internet...just invisible for now.  The home page is now a "404 Error" page.  I turned off the "Include Pages" for all my pages and blog in the menu and turned off the everything else visible.  I created a new "Ceased operations" page and changed the header to a fake 404 Error page.  I'm not getting any kind of traffic to it now anyway, so what harm will this be?  Just so long as my boss, in his curiosity from what I said today goes and looks for it...will see that the "page you are looking for doesn't exist."

I have to play his little game for now...until I can find another job.  Here's the moral of this story:

Do Not Disclose Your Treasure to the Wrong People!

I had to be diplomatic to get this job and get some income.  It's a lousy car-washing job for Pete's sake!  The work is not hard but I've been walking on eggs since my boss saw what I had written in the pages of Yabba-Dabba-Dooo.

My interview and what I wrote there do not add up!

The very worst thing I could have ever done was disclose my website to these people.  This has been festering to the point that when I do make a mistake, I get pounced on quite severely.

My boss is out to show me just how small I am and what insecurity of employment is all about.  I had no idea the element of fear was going to become so great!

For the love of what you are doing, until you get to the point where it wouldn't matter who knew about it...including employers...do NOT disclose what you are doing.  It CAN cost you your income!  It can be any day now for me unless I can find something to replace this job.  I did awful on the $1 Trial promotion so for now I've got to look to employment...bad as I hate to!

In the excitement of having created my home page totally revamped through the help of many here in this Membership, I had forgotten that I had damning dialog in my About Me Page.  Employers do not want to hear about "Psychologically Unemployable" after you've indicated otherwise in your interview (in pretense, of course.)  This does not mean that I would not provide my best service under employment when it is expedient, but that is not believable to an employer.

I'm going to say it the way it was said to me by one of my mentors...and it was blunt but very true...when it comes to things your employer or fellow employees would not understand...

Keep Your Mouth Shut!

You will be far better off!  Just like they say about Church and State (to use perhaps not a very good illustration...but makes my point here...) as an employee, you must live your life on your employer's terms.  Keep your personal aspirations and passions separate from your job...unless your job is your passion and aspiration!

So now my website joins the ranks within the invisible Internet.  It has to stay that way until I can leave this job position.  The two are not mixing very well.  My very style of writing is putting my head on my employer's chopping block.  For now I'm in the stocks!

By all means, promote WA and any other niche you are in!  Do not underestimate some people!  They can wreak havoc on what you are doing because they, in some way, think your endeavors are a threat to them!

All I can see in my boss is that he is very insecure!  What I said in that website, though falls on welcomed ears in places like Wealthy Affiliate...is very threatening to an employer if he gets the notion you are trying to think for yourself or live life on your own terms!