Last year my technical director assigned me a project, which was to define the scope of work for the company with respect to a regulation, for the next five years. I came up with 237 items. Part of the company was literally calling for my termination and some of them were vp level. I was passed over for promotion but I held on to my job. Today, the official number came out from the very people who had called for my head. The number was "Just shy of 240." They would not say exactly what the number was.
Guess who got that promotion!!!! Right before lunch, the TD stopped by with a good job and the news.