Hard work pays off

I was nearly fired last night in my dreams. A company president whom I've never seen (because he doesn't exist) was the one to outbrief me, and I insisted that he overcome his reluctance to tell me why I was being let go, because I needed to know so that I could avoid similar mistakes in my future employment. He explained that it was ultimately because I was too loud, which had especially disturbed him when he was on a phone call with a customer. I became even more insistent at that point that this was unjust. I pointed out that I'd mentioned my hearing loss as a disability on my hiring application (true in real life) and discussed it with my coworkers at the outset and when new people came on, as well (also true). I told him that I was pretty certain that it was illegal to fire me over this (though I'm not sure how this would actually play out in an at-will employment state, I'm pretty sure that handicap status is a protected category). We were approaching the CEO/owner at this point, who smiled with relief that I'd found the leverage she needed to keep me on as she apparently wanted (in reality, this entire scenario of my firing is completely unrealistic; the CEO and CTO, a married couple, run the place), and agreed with me afterward that I would have won quite a sum of money in court over the issue.

The timing of this dream is rather odd, as I haven't been loud at work - although I also can't hear low conversations very well - and especially as we just won a contract as a direct result of many long hours I put in preparing a proposal and our responses throughout the subsequent discussion period. It was very rewarding news, given the potentially life-saving implications of the device we're going to help make!