ITG... Same type of thing happened to me... Basically, the management at my company was a bunch of f'ing morons (some of you probably remember when I was working for them, because I was on AO for like 15 hours a day then). But, then they decided they didn't "need" me any more. Though I still got calls from them after, asking passwords to thing, because, even though "security was an issue" they didn't have access to 1/2 the crap on the network.

Anyway, it took a while, but I started a new job. Teaching computers of all things. Went from being paid $12 an hour full time (40+ hours per weak), to teaching part time (6-8 hours a weak) and making $59 an hour. My takehome pay is the same now as it was then, and I have to payout for part of my insurance, and I work less then 1/4 of the same hours. Which, btw, is great, especially now, since I had a son last summer.