Years ago, I was wrongfully discharged after 13 years of loyal service. Called in at quitting time on Friday, asked to hand in keys, escorted to desk to gather things, perp-walked out the door. My email address was dead before I got home and I had been the network administrator. I had set up every aspect of their network from a very expensive T-1 to web servers, email servers, file servers, etc. Note to self; always have primary email address outside of employer...

Decided to look at it as an opportunity. Next job involved a meteoric rise from absolute grunt work at the bottom of the totem pole to being a "party manager" running crews of guys, making a ton of $$$ - when suddenly a "college buddy" of mine shows up on the scene with some suspicious white powders. I mentioned this to my supervisors, all of whom knew one another from previous employment. It was part of my job to drug test anyone involved in an incident or suspected of breaking the zero-tolerance policy, yet this was sliding by in front of me.

This same "college buddy" ended up firmly planting his butt back at the home office, managed to get his brown-nose into a VP position (in spite of prior felony convictions!) and begin remotely yanking my chain until I told him I was coming to the home office to have a meeting. That scared them, I was fired. My letters to the president of the company fell on deaf ears.

I do not drink, much less monkey around with any sort of illegal BS and although I took a MAJOR whack in the wallet, I was/am in the right. It was a jagged pill to swallow. Not being in their "inner circle" and not willing to overlook cost me big. I can, however, sleep at night.