and so it goes.....

[TiNi]

it makes me mad that they canned you for trying to better their business 
you are WaY better than that.

something better will come of this,
and if you are working for them when it does,
you'll miss it. 

[akmnstr]

Sorry to hear the news, but from what you said it sounds like you'll be better off in the long run.  For what it's worth, when I've had a really shitty work situation it is the unbearableness that forced me to move on with my life.  Maybe I've been lucky, but I've always ended in a better place, both career and personally, while the shit that I left continues to make those still there unhappy.  Sounds like you tried to fix things but they weren't willing to change.  Check back with them in a year and I bet it will still be an ugly place and you will have moved on to something better.