[Rick Lee]

My boss makes everyone the guilty party, no matter the problem. Just about all of us have had our laptop hard drive crash at some point in the last two years. We cannot get onto the network any other way, only with our assigned laptops, which have to be shipped to tech support in NJ for repair. It usually means we can't work at all for about a week when this happens. When it happened to me, my boss's first question was, "What the hell did you do to it?' Uh, I was downloading porn and surfing for job leads. Duh. Last week I had a contract get disputed by a client's legal dept. Two conflicting clauses in it were written by my boss. No matter. It was my fault for not working on a renewal 60 days prior to expire, even though I knew my contacts there would be laid off about 50 days before expire and never could have renewed anything, even if they had wanted to. That's our punishment for not being our own bosses.