I'm always amazed at the fact that there are people in the world who really don't care what they do to people, as long as it makes them look good. I had the misfortune of working for one of those people in my last job. Basically, the entire incident broke down to his bad style of management getting him in trouble, and needing someone he thought wouldn't fight back to lay the blame on. And, for a time, he was successful.
The end result being my removal from my job, and a return to the job I was doing when I first joined the company some years before. Not quite the direction I was planning for my career. Needless to say, there were / are / will be hard feelings there. However, the universe is a closed system, and energies that are expended in one way will be returned to their owner in kind.
Now, I look back at the former manager of mine, and in the time that I've been away from that job, he's been demoted (ironically to a level equivalent to my old position), and has been trapped underneath the house of cards he's been building around himself. Of course, now he has no one to pin the gross incompetence on, so he's looking worse and worse to the higher ups.
If he's intelligent, he'll learn from the experience, and perhaps he'll be a bit more understanding should he ever be in that position again. My own experience, however, tells me he just won't get it. After all, it's the rest of the world that's screwed up, not him.
Ignorance must truly be bliss.
