A long time ago I worked for a company that fabricated and installed all sorts of aluminum ramps, stairways, columns etc, I was just a regular worker there but with experience on the different machines for die cutting, cutting etc. At some point the company I worked for decided they would start making aluminum windows as well. So I told them that I had quite a bit of experience in that department which included glass cutting and manufacturing the frames and many other steps in the window fabrication. So the foreman asked me to show him how it’s done once part of the shop was put together to be able to handle the process. 2 weeks later, the big boss calls me to his office and tells me that he was told by the foreman that I was the only employee with the knowledge to fabricate those windows through all the steps required, so he asked me to train 5 guys on different steps of the fabrication. I said yes but seeing that I would have much more responsibility a substantial salary raise would be required. He asked how much I wanted, I told him double the salary I was payed at the moment, he agreed. So during the next 2 months I worked hard on getting that department ready to produce and I did a very good job, 4 of the 5 guys they had given me to train each were becoming very good at specific steps of the fabrication. During lunch time one day I was having a chat with the foreman of the whole place and I mentioned that since I had put together the whole window department as well as trained the employees to work some of it, that I thought it would be fair to make me foreman of that department. So the main foreman who I got along with said that he would mention it to the boss. I did also mentioned that if I was not made foreman, that I would most likely quit my job as soon as I found something else. 2 weeks later, the main foreman comes to me and tells me the chat he had with the boss about me becoming the window department foreman, apparently they had just landed a big contract to fabricate all the windows and balcony ramps for a very large condo complex and that I was asked to train a few other guys on some separate steps of production so that all those windows could be made in a specific time period, so I started on that right away, couple days later, the boss calls me to the office and tells me that he has something he wants me to do, he wants me to train his nitwit nephew to become the foreman of the window department. I just got up, turned around and left, I felt insulted that after all I had done that I would not be made foreman. I just quit my job in the middle of the day, didn’t say a word to anyone. Turns out, me leaving got them in trouble as I was the only one there that know everything about the whole process since I had trained the different guys to do specific steps of the process. They had a multi million dollar contract hat was almost on standby. The following days I received multiple phone calls from the foreman and eventually the boss and owner of the company, to whom I said that there is nothing he an offer me that will make me go back there as I was certain that I’d be faced with under appreciation at every turn and told him to go f*** himself. I don’t know how it all turned out, if they managed to keep and fulfill the contract but I didn’t care. Within 2 weeks I found a much better job elsewhere. I’m sure that my leaving that company had some great cost and told myself that it would teach them something.

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