Got Fired As A Rookie Solo Driver

Why don't you try calling a higher up and see if you can go back into training? I would.

For Swift? After I already been terminated?

Yes. You never know what could happen. Short story.

Way back when as a teenager I landed a job at a Golf & Games; you know, arcade games, go carts, miniature golf. My duties were keeping the games clean, replacing bulbs on the course, picking up cigarette butts, all the boring stuff that keeps the property looking nice. One night it was bit slow and everything was done and I asked the "shift manager" if there was anything else to keep me busy. He was annoyed at me interrupting his flirting with the girls at the snack bar, but made up some job for me to do.

After I had done that, I again asked him if there was more to do. I had already taken a break and was not scheduled to go home for another hour or so. I had as yet not learned how to milk the clock and assumed being paid on the job meant actually working (imagine that!). This second interruption perturbed him enough that, to impress the ladies I'm sure, he told me to "punch the f... out and go home" followed by "and don't come back". It was clear I had just been fired for working too hard. Huh.

The next day I got mad enough about it that I called the establishment and talked to the main manager, but he basically didn't want to discipline his assistant and backed him up and judged that if he had reason to let me go he wasn't going to supercede that. Undeterred by this BS, I figured out how to contact the owner and was able to speak with him for a minute.

Very quickly, he put me on hold to call the manager. When he came back on the line he told me to go back to work tomorrow, that he'd taken care of things. Turns out there had been other complaints (harassment, weed, etc.) about the assistant but nobody had the balls to do anything about it. I went back to work, the manager apologized to me, the assistant was let go. I worked there the rest of the summer, and got to flirt with the girls myself (when there was time, of course).

The moral is you just don't know what will happen when you ask and make your case. Perhaps the DM you dealt with is no longer there, or had complaints against her. Perhaps the policy has relaxed. Perhaps someone is in a decision making capacity that remembers you and can vouch for your character. What if right know that terminal is desperate for someone to sit in a truck? You have nothing to lose by asking.