'My position was eliminated': Ex-employee snags top client from agency, old boss panics after losing their business

It seems like this boss picked the wrong person to let go.

This former employee worked at an agency and was one of the only trusted workers there when it came to the agency's relationship with their top client. For whatever reason, when upper management decided that they needed to do a round of layoffs because of budget constraints, they chose to get rid of this guy, thereby jeopardizing the future of their relationship with said client.

What's even more remarkable here is that these fools clearly did not institute a plan of action to ensure their client that they would be taken care of and that they would be in capable hands. That lack of foresight only goes to show the inevitability of the client's dissatisfaction with their working relationship with the agency, especially after the departure of the very individual who once made them feel protected and decently represented.

However, in a surprising turn of events, the ex-employee must have found a glaring loophole in his contract that would allow him to partner up with this former client even though he is no longer employed by the agency. Again, talk about a dysfunctional organization if they don't even have a well-written non-compete clause in their contractual agreements.

Well, all that meant that the author was able to work on his own terms and represent this client with full independence while his former company crumbled financially. Revenge doesn't get much sweeter than that!

While the outcome for this author here is a one-of-its-kind situation, those of us can at the very least live vicariously through his achievements. Not only was he able to prove himself more than capable of doing what his company claimed he could not do on his own, but his efforts and competence ended up being the very causes of that agency losing its biggest business.
Imagine how upper management at this agency felt when they realized that they could have harnessed the talents of this author to their own benefit if only they had been more observant of his skills and grateful for his contributions. Instead, they assumed that he would be easily replaceable and that other coworkers could easily take on his work without him. Boy, were they wrong!
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"My old agency let me go to cut costs. Now I make more than them, working with their biggest former client."

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