This was a little while back now but I was working on a small system for local councils in the UK. I had recently suggested to my boss that we upgrade our customers to the latest version of the development package (since having them all on different versions made rollouts complicated and some were even unsupported). The timescale I suggested for this was about 6 months to allow me to migrate older versions and ensure all the functionality worked within the new version.
He sent me out the following week with instructions to "just get out there and do the upgrades". Of course there were multiple failures, including versions from the vendor for unsupported machines (oh, you wanted a SPARC chipset version, we don't do that .... erm, what I I holding in my hand then that has SPARC written on it?)
In the end we were left with a number of dissatisfied customers, some running on evaluation versions becasue we couldn't install license keys, and my boss was left looking like an incompetant moron (hmm, wonder why).
His solution? Sell the software package to a small software house, and me with it. I found out about this on monday morning as I was about to leave the house to go to work and my P45 arrived (the form you get in the UK when you leave a job). Needless to say I wasn't happy when I arrived at the office and ther might have been some unpleasant things said.
In the end I had a look at the new place but the commute was too much and they weren't offering anything extra, so I called in and said I'd just take my final month's salary thank you very much and be on my way. The line went quiet. He said he needed me to go out on client sites and troubleshoot until the handover. I pointed out that I had a P45 and didnät work for them any more. He pointed out that under no circumstances would he pay me a month's salary for doing nothing. I pointed out that he was in fact, a complete prat. And bald.
In the end I agreed to work for 2 weeks for contractor rates (which he paid out of petty cash) and he agreed to hide in his office whenever I stomped past his door. That was the last time I was actually employed by a company rather than being a contractor.