content: This definitely did not happen for me. I got booted out by some cunt  diversity hire, who knew nothing of technology, who assigned me to work on poorly architectured software, I got caught in an internal political battle where they tried making Me a fall guy to show upper management. It didn't pan out for them though since before I left followed the advice from an online forum, and i sent a big email  to upper management detailing the architecture flaws and how they had to completely start from scratch or not finish, and the whole multimillion dollar project was shutdown inside 8 months after they booted me.it was a government funded operation of course Then I couldn't use anyone there as a reference so I just fell off to the way side. Considering suicide. Programing was my passion, but a pure meritocracy it is not.  Couldn't land more than one contract which no employer ever used as a jumping off point to hire me