Is it bad to care about the employees at my job than the company?

Have to agree with Sherry with one exception - I would not have told the boss off/the truth. I believe that a person should always leave an employer on the best terms possible - particularly if you need to use them on a resume.

I think it is foolish to chastise the person who is supporting you financially and expect to keep the job.

It's all well and good to care about your coworkers but it is your employer that pays you.

It was bold and brave of you to speak out for your fellow employees. Somewhere, there is a lovely place where this would lead to great respect for you. Actually, that's this world -- but it does not keep you your job. Part of the respect is based on the fact that you were willing to lose your job in taking a stand. This is one reason that unions exist -- so that an employer cannot fire people for making a principled stand, and so he can see his employees standing together for a principle.

Sometimes you have to balance principles against practicals. That is, have a new job lined up before you tell a nasty boss what you think of his behavior. Or have a slush fund set up to live on while you find that new job. We used to call it F U money.

You call it "standing up to your employer". It was not standing up to your employer unless he made a joke about you and you defended yourself. It was insubordination and you were rightly fired. His actions were distasteful but, he is the boss and if you have no respect for the boss, no matter what kind of a jerk he is, expect to be fired.

Collect that welfare or unemployment check while you look for another job. That's the biggest **** you to that company you can do is to get paid while not working for that piece of crap. I would never work for some piece of **** like that, I would rather quit right there and spit in his face. He thinks it's funny to send people away without a job, karma will eventually catch up to him.

Somehow I can't picture a boss saying "I'm firing you because you stood up for your coworkers". I suspect you got fired because your boss reviewed your work, and decided you weren't a good fit for his company/department.

No, it is not "bad". But it was foolish.

You must be able to find a balance between ethical behavior at work, and at the same time always being painfully aware of who pays your bills.

If I had been in your situation (and I have), I would have started looking for another job, interviewed, accepted another position, and THEN told the truth.

This was a company where you shouldn't be. But you should have found another job first.

If it's wrongful dismissal when they got fired then they could fight it? And if they win then you should all get those jobs back. If the manager is just a head case then find another job that's better, but report the manager to the BBB..? IDK?

I think the company is better off without you and vice versa.

"The boss may not always be right but he is always the boss."