Yeah - I chased after that job for 10 years before finally getting there. I was getting bonuses for being a "Top Performer" and being trained to take over when my boss retired.

When it was said we were returning to the office soon and they'd be requiring shots - I knew a number of other people on the audio team that didn't want the shot but weren't comfortable speaking up (the people that wanted shot requirements were AGREESSIVELY HOSTILE towards anyone remotely disagreeing).

Knowing my position as an effective employee, I took a gamble and held a meeting with my 10 person team - said in it that I saw a fork in the road ahead and wanted to address it before we got there.

Told the group that I wasn't getting a shot - didn't go deep into why, knowing that that'd be contested territory. In the meeting I was met with support and reassurance that a solution would be found.

A few weeks went by and I got a random Slack message from an HR lady.

HR lady tells me that someone in that meeting filed a complaint stating that my "Opinion" was deeply disturbing and divisive to them.

Being that I'm a straight white male who's not weak, I knew I was on the woke crowd's radar as someone to sacrifice - i could tell this HR lady was out for the kill.

Told my boss - he reassured me that he would never let that happen, etc. etc.

Next day - HR lady messages me for another meeting - my gut told me everything in that moment.

I go into that Slack meeting - the Exec Producer is in there, my boss is in there (looking extremely sour) and HR lady is in there.

My boss tells me in that meeting that I did nothing wrong and that he disagrees with this entirely.

HR lady says I violated workplace rules by using company time to discuss divisive topics and I was being terminated.

(What about all of the times I had to watch in 400 person meetings while all the vaxtards seethed in chat about how non-shot takers should not be allowed back to work??) But, of course, I knew that rule only works one way, doesn't it?

Anyways - I had another job within a month - never had to apply to any. I'm in a better space. The experience still sucked - and I had SO MANY fellow audio people reach out to me privately and tell me I got screwed - they know it - and they are pissed for me. Many suggested legal action.

I tried looking for lawyers initially - but that was in 2021 in SoCal and the time there wasn't ripe yet for legal action on this stuff - no lawyers wanted to touch it despite me having IRREFUTABLE VIDEO EVIDENCE of the entire encounter - every single bit of it.

As these other lawsuits around the country come out successful - I sit and wait for the temperature to get ripe enough so I can go in for battle with my own experience.

Another story you'll find interesting - and when I knew Blizzard was dead.

So I was on a four person hiring team - we were evaluating applicants... got to the end of the applicant list and were discussing. Two of the people on that team said these things...

"Man I hate it that it's always White Guys." followed by "Yeah, it sucks that it's just White Guys."

At the point where I heard those things uttered on my Own team there - I knew that the values of excellence that made old Blizz what I wanted to chase after for all those years.... I knew that that Blizz was DEAD.

(Again, I have this entire encounter on VIDEO for when the time is right - although I'm slightly hesitant to share it because it involves people I considered friends... and if I shared a video of them saying these things, it would eliminate our relationships and the possibility of helping them walk across the bridge to a better life perspective when the time comes - that's more valuable then destroying a company (that's already destroying itself).

I still talk with my old co-workers (who are also on this board) almost every day - they say it's only gotten worse with the superficial diversity hiring.

It's a time bomb.

One last thing. Throughout all of everything there is one more important experience to share with you. That is my walk through it with God.

After everything here that I've shared with you, you can see how involved that job was with my life - the fact that I pursued it for 10 years is a lot by itself.

It was an idol.

In my walk through all of this - the night before I was going to share my choice to not get the shot with my team, I surrendered that job into the hands of God.

I'm not going to do a good job of communicating the gravitas of that right now - but considering I'd been playing MMO's since 1999 - and made it my career focus - and spent easily 80 hours a week working (out of personal desire) - this "thing" was an idol. I was addicted to existing in this world of MMO's - and I could not quit the pursuit of it on my own. I was incapable of that.

So much that I would often be praying to God and telling Him that he could have everything in my life - my resources, my relationships, my time, etc. But when I was being honest, my heart was saying - "Have all those things, but let me keep this job - I'll do those things there" (Which I was!)

But - that is an idol. And that means that God was second place (even though I really didn't want to admit it and my relationships and actions would convincing otherwise)

So when I knew I was walking into a situation at work that could possibly cost me my job - I HAD to surrender it.

And so in the midst of that painful experience, was a freeing from chains.

I am cured now - I am changed now - and I will always surrender every single thing to Jesus now.

God showed up - btw! Like I said - in everything that went down, I had 5 job offers within a couple weeks - never had to apply to a single one of them.

Now, I am making more then I was at Blizz - and I'm working remote and able to be with my Family, that I moved far away from to pursue Blizz.

I did a "Trust Fall" on God's promises, and He showed up.

If you're still reading - here's one more important lesson. The Reason for needing Jesus...

Like I said - I was doing "all the right things" as far as being a Christian goes in the public eye. I was having Faith conversations at work - trying to influence those around me in a way that brought them to a relationship with God. I was volunteering my time at Church - I was actively in prayer and studying God's word.

But there's that idol of my Career that I told you about. And i told you that I couldn't walk away from that on my own strength.

This is Why we Need Jesus. Because God requires PERFECTION from us. PERFECTION. And no matter how good we seem or try to be - we CAN NOT do it on our own. It is IMPOSSIBLE.

This is why we need to be covered in the Sacrifice of Jesus's Perfection - to be acceptable in the day we die on earth an go to meet God. I never REALLY understood and appreciated the need for Jesus's sacrifice until this experience - I could not do it on my own.

So now I know I NEED Jesus's perfect sacrifice - and this keeps me in a constant state of surrendering to Him. Hold everything with an open fist.

If I'm honest guys, this is what we really need to make sure we're doing with Trump and the country.

It's good to pursue these things. They are right and just - and according to the Bible, we are supposed to be standing up for what we are standing up for.

But... Always Always Always make sure you're holding it with an open fist - and make sure you're trusting God's promises over and beyond, any, others.