re: Anyone gone through a period of frustration with your job and started acting too brash....

No, but I started being a real dick to my boss. I was doing a shite load of work for our finance team and he thought I was just being lazy and didn’t realize how much I had going on with them. So he decided to PIP me. Bad move because I was in the middle of closing a $200M portfolio investment that they needed to IPO. Ended up putting his nuts in the vice on that one, got a fat bonus and PIP thrown in the trash. We all laughed about it once the IPO hit. I got a better offer a couple months later and left but still consult for them. Not being a bitch worked out in my favor but you can’t just be a dick for no reason.