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I almost got fired for refusing to change out the locks on our office doors so that my boss couldn't be evicted when he stopped paying rent. Sounds like the main differences between you and I were that I became curmudgeonly at an early age and that my boss was easier to immediately identify as a dangerous asshole.
Well, I got lucky because my first bosses were good people, so I didn't have to do stuff I would object to today. Then later, as I gained experience and my resume got long enough for me to be more picky about whom I work for, I made extra-sure to select decent employers I would be "compatible" with.
I only worked for 2 slightly sketchy employers: the former didn't really ask me to do anything I didn't want to but they did run away with the company's money. The latter asked me as a manager to lie to my team members and fuck their career prospects in order to extract a few extra months of work from them when they know they'd be firing them. I refused and instructed my boss that I would be suing the company for unfair dismissal if they moved against me. They didn't and I left eventually, so I came out of that one feeling good about what I did.
Other than those two, my working career has been fairly peaceful. So I never really had a reason to turn curmudgeonly 🙂
That truly feels good to hear that kind of story. I started working when I was 16 and almost all of my bosses were abusive assholes creating horrifically toxic environments. I got my first decent boss when I was nearly 30 and I've stayed with them for around a decade.