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I worked for a large corporation that was a Fortune 500 company in Canada in 2001 and

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put together the largest deal that they had ever had in their history of $1.5 million,

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$1.2 million, and the second phase was $1.5 million.

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And the short version of the story is rather than pay me, the commission, due on that,

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they fired me because they were having a bad quarter and they didn't want to have to pay

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out that money.

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And so not only did I not get that commission, but I also didn't get paid the $20,000 in

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the expenses that I had accrued.

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And I was fired by the phone when I had literally gone 76 days in a row without a break because

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I was filling in two vice president roles while they found new vice presidents and had

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literally for 76 days in a row worked 16 hour days.

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And they fired me.