…one over the events of that day many times in my head to try and make sense of his brutal behavior, I am convinced he had had our exchange in mind for some time and used his outburst as a calculated first step in getting me tossed. His blow-up was just a tactic to get the ball rolling, an excuse to paint the picture of me being either insubordinate, disrespectful, or any number of other things he could conjure up to use with HR to build his case for termination.