[flushed with pride]

Hitman, your experiences parallel my own. Thank you for telling them so well. Whenever I hear or read about someone else who works hard and works well and is not properly appreciated, leaving a company that is loaded with deadweight (who is usually related to or having 'relations' with the owner/manager), I feel validated yet again for doing the same thing myself years ago.

[Indrid Cold]

Hear, hear. I spent 10 years working at dead-end jobs before I "fluked" myself into my dream job--couldn't stand the idiots. I am prepared to close down the shop and go flip hamburgers for a living if the moochers get too oppressive.