What would you do?
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- gramme0
I got the ax at my last job, basically we got a new Marketing Director (boss #3 in one year) at my crap in-house art department. He immediately pulled me off of the biggest project of the year and gave it to some buddies of his at a firm in Boston. Not 100% sure why I got fired, but it was probably because of the bad blood that ensued between me and my micro-managing, paranoid, ladder-climbing boss. neue_75_bold is right, it can be tough to get over the bitterness.
I made the mistake of not burning DVDs of my work before leaving. All they gave me after one year of solid work and 3 months of hassling them over phone & email was low-res PDFs. Hence the reason why my current portfolio is printed on 8.5 x 11 sheets instead of something larger.
After that I packed it up, headed out to MO where the family lives, and spent the next 4 months creating a self-promo campaign. When I wrote the copy for my website, I made sure to give credit to my buddies @ Numark, but not to my superiors who weren't designers anyway. Haven't had any problems yet. I say go for it and if they sue you, tell them you have ZERO livelihood without the portfolio.
All that to say I got a great job out here, and I now look back and see that getting fired was one of the best things that has ever happened to me. Plus I met my fiancee out here, which is quite a bonus for sure...good luck man. Get out before they show you the door.