I got fired for calling out my boss, so I took some clients with me.

Used to work at a merch company. My boss was a control freak with zero design skills, he’d slap a flat .jpg on a shirt pic and call it a mockup (I have a design degree, it was painful). He kept making mistakes, blaming me, and one day greenlit a huge order without client approval. When it went wrong, he blamed me again. This happened a couple times.

I snapped, called him out in front of the team (who backed me), and got fired the next day.

So I left… and then told a bunch of our clients the truth. Some were being overcharged, others heard what my boss really thought of them. A few left. Most of the production team quit after me.

Do I regret it? Nah. It was chaotic good.