I was a sysadmin for a leading green tech company that basically gut their IT dept over the course of a year. Went from 5 employees to two and I ended up performing the job of director on an 85k salary which is laughable for that position and I was actually doing the role very well. I created the business process for about 100 retail stores and knocked it the fuck out of the park. It was and still is an amazing system which works 100% with an iPad, desktop PC, Mac PC, or Android phone. Anyways fast forward 2 years and the company refused to promote me to a proper director, we had millions of dollars coming in through IT channels some of which were 100% my idea and the executives refused to recognize it. There were sales executives getting up in front of the company for major events and shamelessly taking credit for my ideas and projects, things they had zero involvement in.

Finally one day in a meeting I snapped. After their normal bullshit shenanigans I told my boss the CFO to fuck off, and I told the president of the company he's too incompetent and ignorant to be in charge of anything related to IT. He only sees IT as a cost center and has no idea how to leverage the power of the internet and that he should have retired in the 90s. I just got up and left before they had a chance to fire me.

Fast forward 3 years I'm now working at a technology company with proper engineers and software developers having a blast and really enjoying my job. The pay is awesome and I don't work with shitty sales people. My old company is still trying to replace me they have had 3 guys quit just like I did but none of them have delivered a single project. They're on the verge of just outsourcing IT. The users will pay for that but it's not my problem anymore. Life is good.