Reply #12: That's absolutely right.

[ThomCat]

Three of us worked our asses off and that company had it's first Million Dollar Plus Year. (a very good year for a very small company.) It never happened before, and rumor has it that it hasn't happened since.

Yet part of the reason we were fired is because we knew we were responsible for the company's success that year. We turned around bad projects and repaired bad business relationships and brought in billable hours. We worked the late nights and the weekends.

My coworders openly joked that the boss was the head of the "Client Abuse Program" and my job was to rescue clients from that program and resolve the stagnant projects. Rescuing those projects brought in a lot of our billable hours, and the the clients were finally willing to pay invoices because they were finally seeing results.

Our one finance employee earned her nickname, "God" for producing miracles straightening out the books, and cleaning up the billing, and collecting on old invoices, and implmenting accurate time and project tracking.

Yet we were purged because we dared to deny the boss all the credit.

I learned a hell of a lot while working there. All of it the hard way. and I'm very glad I don't work there any more. :)