As Soon as I Got a Big Order, I Was Laid Off.

My boss has rejected my promotion application for three consecutive years. I had just won a big client, and I thought I would be guaranteed a promotion and salary increase, but the promotion list given by the company was for leadership. It turned out that the leader removed my name from the plan and it was his sole credit. I went to find him, and he looked at me condescendingly and spit out the tea leaves. "If you can do it, go ahead, if you can't do it, get out." Three weeks later, I successfully told him what it meant to lay off people right down to the arteries!