<prompt> Human: Until 12 PM today, I had confidence that I could do my job. I knew I had made several mistakes, but I assumed they were more miniscule than they were. There were a couple bigger mistakes, but whenever my manager spoke with me about them, he spoke in a very calm manner and never showed any sort of frustration. I was never put on an action plan of any sort.Today, I sent an email with a wrong person CCed and it was enough to set him off. Out came the laundry list of everything I had done wrong in the past two years, and I essentially had to beg to keep my job my boss and I have had a good rapport prior to this. He told me he will not go to HRhis boss about these issues Ive apparently been having, but Im basically on a 90 day probationary period where I need to CC him on every communication. While explaining the resolution of an issue later in the day, I told him what I was going to do and my thought process behind it, and again, out came the anger. I am now at a point where Im literally terrified to send an email in the last 3 hours.Ive been looking for a part-time job in the meantime and spoke to a friend who owns a 3rd party store that sells phonesplans. I told him theres a possibility I might need full-time after Monday, and he basically said I have the job if I need it. Its not ideal, but its something. There is another position in my company that is a step lower with less stressresponsibility that I am interested in applying for now because of todays fiasco I was interested in this position years ago, but went with this current role instead. Since I have the aforementioned good rapport with my boss and weve discussed other matters aside from work, I was thinking of going in by stating something like, I am interested in applying for this lower position because, after our conversation today, I no longer feel confident I can do the job the way you want me to. I feel this will allow you a period to hire someone to replace me and do a better job and allow me to save face. I wanted to speak with you before I formally applied for this position to inquire about your thoughts. Worst case scenario, if he gets so angry that he looks to fire me again, I can put in my two weeks and go with the cell phone giglook for another job in the meantime. This way, theres no gap on my resume and it may be easier to explain.I have a couple of questions about this:- Is this a decent plan? Or should I simply let them fire me and collect unemployment?- If I am fired, is there any way I can get around really mentioning it during interviews? For instance, my company was just acquired last November. Could I say it was a result of restructuring? Or will they call to ask the reason for me being fired?EDIT: I keep getting a lot of responses about the demotion. Its essentially a 1.80hour decrease from what Im making now and isnt directly beneath my position. Plus, its closer to my home and would save me in toll money.EDIT 2: Boss was much calmer today. Talked it out. Ive basically been put on an informal PIP. Another mess-up will be a formal PIP, followed by termination. Ive inquired about the demotion position, and my boss is content to let me post out within the company, provided I dont need to be placed on the formal PIP. Ive posted out to the position, and will probably post out to another that may actually pay better. I am still actively looking at getting out based on most of the advice Ive received. Thanks to everyone who replied.Assistant: I wouldnt even tell him your plan on applying. Apply to the position first and speak with the manager at the other position. once youve applied you can decide if you want to tell him. I, personally, wouldnt tell him at all until I was the desired candidate for the other position. Speak with HR also. document, document, document and, document. You need to express your desire to HR to fix your errors and express to HR your bosses interactions with you. Him blowing up is absolutely not cool and not right and could even be against policy. This is wrong. Human: He didnt say anything offensive. He just raised his voice and hes never done that before. Im also not exactly a model employee and have cut a few corners, so going to HR and having them do some digging may lead to my termination as well, I feel.  <response>: I dont think that is entirely true. But quit cutting corners and do your job 