After doing my old job for 11 years, they changed the requirements for the same job I had been doing for years and fired me. I've been working since I've been 17 for various companies but this was a gut punch. No warning, no “Improvement plan”, just gone in 10 mins with “we're going in another direction” and not even enough time to empty my desk. This is was supposed to be my retirement job.
11 years wasted. Graduations missed, birthdays missed, a million never to be repeated moments lost for a job that fired me in a 10 minute phone call. Never take a job over family. Never.
Covering the entire company's footprint with just three people for months. Working 12-16 hour days. Dangling a “raise” over my head for years and never following up on it.
Now I'm living on my 401k money until that runs out then some job where I can just veg mostly until I die or win the lotto. I've broken my body and mind working for these unappreciative bastards and I have literally nothing to show for it. Fuck these blood sucking vampires for eating my youth and health for money to line their pockets. I'm done playing this game.