I loved the 'defense'

Come on you guys shes a woman so it was hard even though she had enough money to hire people to raise her kids for her - it was tough.

God that woman was dispised, 8!!! pgs of people calling her a bitch

I haven't seen comments like that since the CIO who outsourced all our application developers got the axe.

There was a going away party. After he left. He wasn't invited.

Ugh, that brings back memories of a place where I used to work. My bosses were great people, but they turned over every six months because of the horrible shrew they reported to. So, during the year and ten months I worked there, I went through a parade of three different bosses. The first two were women who went home crying at least one night a week, and the third was a guy who skipped all the crying and simply walked away from the job one day with no notice.

It's so irritating when companies keep people around who cause that kind of turnover. This woman threw screaming tantrums on a weekly basis and would publicly humiliate and undermine the people who reported to her. Memo to senior management: Your departments are never going to accomplish anything if they never keep people around past the training phase!

The only satisfying part for me was that one day I listened to a 30-minute tirade get unleashed on the same recruiter who placed me in that hellhole. Apparently she even made the recruiter cry! I couldn't feel too sorry for her, though - by filling the same positions at the company over and over again, she must have raked in a bundle.

Screaming lady's boss was a ditzy flake who was never in the office and seemed unaware of what was going on. Probably because her personal life was a complete mess and her kid kept winding up in jail. A few years later, screaming lady and her ditzy boss were both gone.

I gues only the Observer knows if it's several people making many comments, or just a few people, going crazy and trolling, but it seems to be the former.

You read something like this and wonder how someone can go from the very top to a high school. Maybe she's getting the torture she desserves?

Sounds like The Devil Wears Prada. Maybe they'll make a movie out of it.

There are only two ways to handle people who get off on humiliating and or abusing their workers.

The most obvious is to quit.

The second, is to have them convinced that you're a borderline psychotic without actually giving them reason to complain.

They'll either promote you out of the way, or avoid you themselves. Either way it works out.

I remember reading one of Scott Adams humor books, and he suggested:

"Keep new copies of guns & ammo, and soldier of fortune, magazine on your desk. Offer neither discussion or comment on them, every now and then, ask for a little time off to "take care of a personal problem."

That one made me laugh.

Ouch! Not a lot of love there.

No comment yet, but to admire the locution "bubbling ugly".

...aaannnd it's amazing what assumptions people make based on the possession of a magazine.

Chances are, the police in your town have subscriptions to G&A, American Handgunner and the like. Zounds! Bunches, notably the shooters (as opposed to political positions) belong to the NRA. Horrors!

Horrors?

I mean, imagine! The gall of believing that the ultimate power belongs to the people in the USA!

(And the abject ignorance of the level of firearms possession in this country. With more than half of the firearms in private hands worldwide - do the math- we're actually doing fine.)

You're supposed to be unarmed, and to do what you are told by people better than you.

Like your boss.