The core take away here is that unless you are one of the top 3 employees in a start-up, or even moderately successful business, you are trivially expendable. N

The core take away here is that unless you are one of the top 3 employees in a start-up, or even moderately successful business, you are trivially expendable. No matter if you put in hours of overtime, poured your hart and soul into your job, all of that is null and void on the whim of the owners. Of course they will have a rational justification why you lost your job. Unless you control your destiny you will forever be subject to the destiny of others. Take all of this into consideration when next interviewing and negotiate for the best possible deal, knowing that no amount of possible "future" prospects is a solid as hard cash in the bank now, be as predatory and hard nosed as you can possibly be. You are working for Me(Inc) and its dependants, you are morally obliged to extract every last drop of value you can from your current employment relationship, because, as you can see from this example, the converse is a given.