[SamuraiProgrammer]

Originally posted by Atrocities:
It took me a while, but in the end I did get my revenge and I took great satisfaction in knowning that I had contributed to his demise. Am I a bad person for taking satisfaction from this, hell ya, but you won't hear me ever apologize for it.

I don't think that taking satisfaction in justice makes you a bad person.

I had a boss that was good at 'politics'. I had been working at the company for 6 years. I had written all of the accounting software which included a job costing package.

Another company bought us and merged the two companies together. This yahoo was put in charge of me. I swear, I tried to get along.

He kept taking credit for my work and such.

Then they bought an off shelf accounting package to replace the software I had written. This is not evil in and of itself, but frankly the software did not meet our needs.

A year later in a staff meeting, I was asked for a status report & told the president that this software would never do what the production managers wanted. He said "Didn't the salesmen tell you it would?"

Oh how sweet.

I replied, "I was never allowed to talk to the salesman!"

My boss had let the president believe that I had recommended the software. If it failed, it was my fault. If it succeeded, he could just correct to the truth that he had picked it out without consulting me.

Sneaky bastard!

A month after I left their employment, he had a heart attack and had to undergo surgery. I take no pleasure in that, but I do take pleasure in the things that came out when I was called in as a consultant to work with the CPA they used as a temporary fill in.

What goes around comes around.