How this 31-year-old got fired from his job and re-hired at the same company in 24 hours

Kyle McCann has ever prided himself successful his quality to marque the champion of immoderate situation. 

So erstwhile his brag fired him from the occupation helium started conscionable 8 weeks earlier, McCann held backmost tears and decided to absorption connected the agleam side. 

McCann, past 26, joined VizyPay, a startup based successful Waukee, Iowa, that designs outgo exertion solutions for tiny and mid-sized businesses crossed the U.S., arsenic a income relationship manager successful June 2017. 

He was the 2nd worker hired astatine the startup and deed the crushed moving successful his caller role, signing respective caller accounts wrong his archetypal 2 weeks connected the job. 

But past concern slowed down — a lot. McCann went weeks without signing a caller customer. "At first, I thought it was going to beryllium the easiest occupation successful the world, going to concern owners and saying, 'How tin I prevention you money?'" helium tells CNBC Make It. "I was terribly mistaken … I rapidly realized I'm not overmuch of a person retired connected the field." 

So erstwhile Austin Mac Nab, the laminitis and CEO of VizyPay, texted him 1 Friday day successful precocious July to plaything by his office, McCann knew helium was toast. "I knew precisely what was coming, that I was getting fired," helium says. "But I decided to spell into that gathering with a affirmative cognition and spot what would happen."

McCann's archetypal thought walking into the gathering with his brag was however helium was going to wage rent adjacent month. 

He and his girlfriend, Shannon, who was moving a temp occupation astatine Wells Fargo Home Mortgage, had conscionable moved to an flat successful Waukee and "probably couldn't spend the rent connected her wage alone," helium says. "But I tried to punctual myself that everything happens for a crushed … I was decidedly frightened but tried not to interest excessively much." 

Even aft Mac Nab told him helium was getting fired, McCann remained calm and upbeat, thanking his brag for the opportunity, highlighting the affirmative elements of his acquisition astatine VizyPay and asking for feedback connected his performance. 

"He was precise humble and didn't springiness maine a clump of excuses arsenic to wherefore helium failed," Mac Nab says. "He held himself accountable to the information that this occupation wasn't for him, which not galore radical do, particularly erstwhile they're getting fired." 

Listening to McCann during the meeting, Mac Nab started to question his determination to fto the caller prosecute permission the institution altogether. "I felt helium was genuine, authentic and hardworking, and my gut instinct kicked successful during that conversation, it was a heat-of-the-moment decision," Mac Nab says. "I thought, 'I person to support him someway, someway astatine VizyPay, conscionable not successful this job.'" 

So, aft Mac Nab fired McCann from his relation arsenic an relationship manager, helium offered him different occupation astatine the extremity of the gathering that helium thought mightiness beryllium a amended acceptable for McCann's skills and affable personality: How would helium similar to beryllium a lawsuit work typical instead? 

The connection came with a little wage than what helium was making successful his erstwhile role, and would beryllium conscionable capable to screen his bills and groceries. McCann went location to speech it implicit with Shannon archetypal and past accepted, to Mac Nab's surprise. 

"I had leads connected different opportunities that paid more, but I saw thing peculiar successful VizyPay," McCann says. "I was anxious to enactment with the institution due to the fact that I genuinely believed successful their imaginativeness and the radical down it." 

Fast guardant 5 years and McCann, present 31, still works astatine VizyPay — helium precocious celebrated his one-year day arsenic the company's manager of operational strategy, and the institution present has 91 employees. He and Shannon are married, and she precocious took a occupation arsenic VizyPay's manager of selling and income enablement. 

McCann often reflects connected the gathering wherever helium was fired arsenic a defining infinitesimal successful his beingness that taught him "patience, the explanation of grinding it retired … and believing successful not lone ideas but yourself," helium says. 

While you can't ever debar getting fired, Mac Nab and McCann hold that determination are a mates of things you should support successful caput during an exit gathering to permission connected bully terms:

• Don't beryllium defensive: Ask for feedback and admit wherever you could person improved successful the role. 
• Keep your emotions successful check: If you suffer your cool, you could jeopardize a instrumentality offer, oregon your leader could beryllium little amenable to negotiating your severance bundle oregon providing a notation for a antithetic job. 
• Maintain an cognition of gratitude: Thank your leader for the accidental and item immoderate of the affirmative takeaways you person from the experience. 

"You can't power different people's actions, but having a affirmative cognition and ever being consenting to enactment successful the hard enactment tin truly unfastened truthful galore doors," McCann says. "Getting that 2nd accidental and being capable to beryllium what I tin bash … it's been unreal and has led maine to physique a vocation that makes maine really, truly happy." 

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