A consultant firm I worked for wanted to fire me, my friend gave me a head’s up so I began searching for another job. When the day arrived, I was called into the conference room with the owner and manager staring at me. They said they were letting me go. They accused me of stealing, which was completely incorrect. We discussed the subject and then I walked out.

As I was driving away, I called the top ranking person at a state government agency I had previously worked at for several years and, since leaving, as a consultant with this firm and another firm . I asked if I could meet with him right away.

When we met, I told him that I had recently discovered the firm I just left was falsefying their work hours when submitting invoices to his agency for payment. I firmly believe to this day that was the reason they fired me.

I also told him, since I had just helped the governor gather info and helped him with his media presentations he gave each evening while the area was recovering from a hurricane (which directly affected all counties covered by this agency’s district) the firm refused to pay for any extra time I spent working for the governor so, it was all on my own time.

A few weeks later, I found out this firm had lost 4 gov’t contracts (specifically in the district covered by the agency I met with after I walked away) they had submitted bids for and, another contract covering work being done for the state gov’t and for the governor’s office, they were expecting to get renewed, was not renewed.

This firm went out of business a few years later.