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Our ex-boss was like something from Dilbert, only actively evil. My fondest wish is that I had seen him as he was escorted out of the building past the police cars.

OOOOHHH! There must be a story there. Please tell.

I've worked for a few actively evil bosses, too. But they never gave me an excuse to kill them. You can see it in the way Bill klinton operates, but for Hitlery, all you have to do is look at her face.

I've worked for a few actively evil bosses, too. But they never gave me an excuse to kill them.

This is not the place for fantasies...but...

I've had some strange bosses. One who was named "Norma." We referred to her as "Abby Norma."

But then there was the one in DC who fired me 'cause I knew he had two sets of books. 'Course I just smiled when, about a year later the Board said to him "you can resign or you can go to jail."

That's a direct quote.

Well, we think he was psychotic. We're a small business; two programmers, a sales guy, my dad - who's an uberprogrammer and a business guy - one guy who works on a client site all the time, and for a while, this boss.

Anyway, for whatever reason last summer we weren't making a lot of sales and the boss-man decides to fire the two programmers - me and another guy. Out of the blue, this was. Don't ask me how he thought this was a good business plan...

Unfortunately he miscalculated the percent of the business he controlled, and the rest of the board (my dad, the sales guy, and an investor) got together the next day and fired the jerk. They called the police ahead of time 'just in case', and probably every cop in the township - all six of them, in their squad cars - was hanging out, in the parking lot, when the guy was escorted to the door.

I, at the time, was at home sulking about being fired. I cheered up after that, went on a little weekend trip, and was back at work on Monday. They even made up for the lost time in my paycheck.