Don't sweat it. I suspect you were a cashier, probably there for less than 6 months. Maybe it was your first job. Your choice as to whether you want to include it on your resume' or job application for your next job. At the job interview, when they ask why you left the job, tell them you swore at the payroll clerk because she was emotionally erect and you were under pressure to meet a deadline.
It won't be the first time you'll get fired for some reason or other. I can honestly say that every time I've been fired, it was actually a good thing because it forced me to get out there and find something better.
Brief history:
Fired from a cashier job at a video arcade at the end of summer. Money was missing from the till and I was the cashier. I didn't take it (it was a nominal amount) and money had disappeared from the till a few weeks earlier - same amount, too. They warned us to be on the look-out for till-snatchers (the register was in an unlocked, open kiosk) but that was the extent of their "improved security" steps. I was one of two people on duty on the night in question and the other was the assistant manager. Guess who took the fall. But hey, to be honest, their busy season was over since schools were starting up and they needed to get rid of someone anyway. It was a Summer job and never went on my professional resume. That arcade is out of business now. Their other location closed up, too. I suspect the money was being drained from higher-up the employee ladder, if you know what I mean.
Fired from a law firm for being overworked and undertrained. I was a bankruptcy paralegal and the caseload slipped. At the weekly review meeting with the court trustee my boss made a comment to the client that I'm "an 80%-er. He gets 80% of his work done and the rest falls by the wayside because of his incompetence." I took offense at the remark,and the fact that I had just been insulted in front of the client. I felt he was using me to excuse his own failing. We got into a bicker right there in the conference room. I can't remember if I quit or if I was fired, but in the end it didn't really matter. My short-term solution was to do temp-work, and at the placement interview the lady noticed that I had worked for that certain firm. She asked why I didn't work there and I told her. She said "yeah, we have a hard time finding people willing to work for him. He's gotten a bit of a reputation with our people. He goes through a lot of employees in a short period of time." The firm later dissolved because my ex-boss couldn't find a partner willing to work with him, and his wife later divorced him. And the temp job? I did some of the most diverse jobs and explored possibilities in fields I otherwise would've ignored. The hourly pay sucked and I couldn't make any long-term plans but I had a lot of fun doing the work.
I had also quit another, larger law firm, for pretty much the same reason - high volume, long hours, low pay, jerk of a boss. The lead attorney/small business owner was later hauled up on charges for abusing his position, the bankruptcy court, and violating his license when he purchased the personal assets of one of his clients without reporting it to the court in the bankruptcy petition. Sort of a "don't report it because it'll get sold off to creditors. I'll buy it from you instead, and you won't have to declare it as an asset." He lost his license and sold the business to a couple of junior attorneys in the firm because none of the established firms in the area wanted to touch him.
So, really, don't get depressed over losing a job. Look at it as being free to explore new career paths. Bad people usually get what's coming to them, eventually.
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