This is the sort of "Hooray for us, fuck you" corporate bullshit that leads otherwise educated people to pull up to the offices where they used to work and stand on their car roof and shoot out $74,721.00 worth of windows while playing Rage Against The Machine on the stereo at about 112 dB.
Or... uh... so I hear.
Actually, I've been self-employed most of my life, and that's one of the reasons. I don't want some jive-assed, three-martini-lunch, brother-owns-the-company cocksucker switching off my income when all of the work he didn't do lands in the company's red ink column; and he needs a few suckers to stuff into a sack so that he can keep his 560 SEL.
That, and I have a very low threshold of tolerance for stupidity mixed with baseless arrogance. I've told more than one ostensibly high-minded, big wheel corporate fuck to suck a wet fart out of my ass, and I don't regret it. I know a few people that are multi-millionaires, and some of them are even people whom I call "friend". They all have one thing in common that most corporate dumbfucks do not: They are all people I would like if they didn't have a nickel.
As far as I can see, huge corporations usually promote three things:
Greed.
Obsequiousness.
Shit products.
There's nothing wrong with wanting to be rich, just don't use people as chattel to do it. I'm not impressed by money, but I can be impressed with how it was gotten if it was done within the basic notions of conscionable behaviour. You got screwed, and it's ok to be angry.
I hope you get a new gig, but what I really hope is that you open your own place and do it your way.
Love,
bunner
"Gotta do what they told ya?"