some people don't realize how attractive consistency is until they've spent enough time around someone who can be incredibly sweet one day and completely unfamiliar the next.
The day my boss fired me, I thanked him. He looked at me like I had lost my mind. “You're thanking me?” I nodded. “Yes.” For three years, I had been the guy everyone called when something went wrong at work. Someone called in sick? I covered the shift. A deadline was impossible? I stayed late. A coworker messed something up? I fixed it. I kept telling myself that being dependable would eventually pay off. Then one Friday afternoon, my boss called me into his office. “We're letting you go.”