Got a bad boss?  Does he or she lie? Steal? Misappropriate company resources or funds for their own use? Fire people  at the drop of a hat or worse, encourage others to drive them out?

Chances are, at some point they were a bad employee themselves. That's why hard-working, honest types drive them crazy.

One radio station owner I knew had worked for another broadcast group as a young man.  I found out that he had been a total pain in the ass, insisting on a new office, personal secretary (whom he hand-picked and started screwing), etc. This was all at the company's expense. He also ruthlessly backstabbed any other co-worker that he thought might challenge him. The owners clearly were afraid of him...

The straw that broke the camel's back came when the owner's realized that he could not be reached outside of work. His increasing dominance of the workplace, plus the sudden departure of valuable employees and other issues demanded that he be available. Even someone like the President of the United States is ultimately on-call 24/7 if the situation becomes dire.

Turns out that the jerk didn't have a home phone, claming it was an unwarranted expense (this sadly predates his legendary cheapskates traits that showed up later in his own company).

The owners reluctantly agreed to pay to a phone at his home (this was back in the mid-1970's).

He did allow for the phone to be installed....in an attic closet on the third floor of his home.  Plus he allegedly turned the ringer off, and used the phone to make long-distance personal calls that the business had to pay for.

He was subsequently let go.

However, the contacts he had made, plus his new ruthless reputation allowed him to eventually gain his own station. One former colleague of his was so bitter that he said that he hoped that his wife would divorce him and turn the kids against him...

By the time I eventually left his employ, he was doing his grocery shopping at 2 am in the middle of the week to avoid running into people that hated him in our small community.

He eventually had to do shop elsewhere because he tried to used mis-matched and outdated coupons at check-out, raging at the poor clerk that was unable to accept them.

One time I ran into him unexpectedly. He said, "thanks for all the rumors."

"The fact you're a lying a$$hole is no rumor" I shot back.

BAD BOSS=BAD EMPLOYEE.