>>12
It was a temp to hire position I worked for 3 weeks through an employment agency. I typically equate being laid off with being fired, as it means the same thing to me. The company was recently bought out by a huge corporation, and I was meant to replace the UI/UX designer.
They said my skills were not yet ready for production, or something along those lines. However, they used my work on their live site within 2 days of working there, and I designed a whole promotion page in another 2 days. It wasn't like I was learning CSS on the job or anything.
It must have been something I did that day because the project manager was talking to me about doing some more work a day before I was hired.
>>14
I'm not bragging. I've never worked with .NET before, but I figured it out fairly quickly. I just needed to mention that the other programmers weren't exactly /prog/ tier, more like brogrammers than anything.