I worked for a large corporation that was a Fortune 500 company in Canada in 2001 and
put together the largest deal that they had ever had in their history of $1.5 million,
$1.2 million, and the second phase was $1.5 million.
And the short version of the story is rather than pay me, the commission, due on that,
they fired me because they were having a bad quarter and they didn't want to have to pay
out that money.
And so not only did I not get that commission, but I also didn't get paid the $20,000 in
the expenses that I had accrued.
And I was fired by the phone when I had literally gone 76 days in a row without a break because
I was filling in two vice president roles while they found new vice presidents and had
literally for 76 days in a row worked 16 hour days.
And they fired me.