I see many have already answered the question, but I want to add a few thoughts. Always save important work related documents. Printed them, or email them to yourself at home. You could save them to a thumb drive but most places do not allow people to use them because of safety of the network. But always keep copies of your acceptance offer, your performance reviews, your pay checks, any reprimands (even if verbal, send an email to your manager with a written summary of any verbal warning). And ask to see your personnel file twice a year as this is your right under state laws, and I think almost every state has this provision. Once you are fired or leave, you will not be able to see many of these things, so keep them printed and take them home, or save them electronically, but not on the company computer, because you wont have access to that. I was just working as a nurse contractor with a 3 year contract. The only way I could be eliminated was for performance. The company decided that instead of 2 nurses doing my job, they wanted a pharmacist and a nurse but they could not make that change until the contract was up, so they decided my performance was in question and fired me. Now the person in my place is a pharmacist. I cannot really do much to prove this, and the company that was actually paying me as the consultant has a much larger contract with this employer and they wont back me up because they will not do anything that isnt basic ass kissing. I will never work as a contract nurse again.