I had a boss many years ago and when I asked him a question once, he laughed at me remarking that a person with my experience shouldn’t have to ask that sort of question.

Years later he came for an interview and I was asked if I knew him. I said he was not a nice person. He didn’t get the job.

Another boss said that he thought of me as an archaeologist, he said that “my career was in ruins”.

He invited me to a meeting as an observer. When we all were seated, he turned to me and said that since I had called the meeting, that he was handing things over to me. Without comment, I successfully ran the meeting and was commended by the visitors for a very profitable meeting.

My boss didn’t say a thing and I left without saying a thing to him. But inwardly, I was furious.