My male boss had no idea I owned 90% of the company stock. He leaned back in his chair, smirked, and said, ‘We don’t need incompetent people like you. Leave.’ I smiled the way people do when they already know the ending and said, ‘Fine. Fire me.’ He thought my badge was the only reason I belonged in that building. He had no clue the next shareholder meeting was going to teach him a very expensive lesson in math.
He thought he was teaching me a lesson when he shoved that termination packet across the table. In his mind, I was just another “difficult” operations manager who asked too many questions, slowed down his shortcuts, and refused to dress negligence up as speed. He didn’t bother to learn who owned the company he was…
