My boss says work project is stupid, so I quit, but the company fires my boss so they can keep me.

Here's what happened.

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Back in the day I worked as an independent IT consultant and was hired along with another

independent to subcontract on a team for a major consulting house.

We'll just refer to it as consulting house.

Everyone else on the team was a consulting house employee.

The two of us were not supposed to tell the client that we weren't part of the consulting house.

But the client figured it out pretty fast because we independence were doing most of the work.

While consulting house's code monkeys were busy filling out spreadsheets all day and going on team building exercises.

But I digress. The project ran past its initial deadline and my contract expired.

I stayed on a week-to to week basis as a professional courtesy to get the project finished because I like the client if not the team.

Unfortunately, the consulting house project manager was booked somewhere else for his next gig, and they brought in a new guy to replace him.

Let's call him David Stress.

David flew in on a Monday morning to get the project handed off to him and immediately started crapping on everything to mark his territory.

He was derogatory and belittling to the team and liked to raise his voice.

I was working in my office, well actually a closet with folding tables that I shared with three other team members and didn't hear what he was saying out in the main room, but I could sure hear his tone.

Then he burst in and demanded,

How are we doing specific payroll-related conversion task?

I said, we're using Program X.

He waved his hand dismissively and scoffed.

That's stupid.

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