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I paid the boss back by leaning way out afterwards and doing the bare minimum until I left.[b] I also made some crucial mistakes [/b]and made myself hard to reach at moments when he really needed me. You fuck me, I'll fuck you. Until he showed such disregard for me during my labor, I had been the type to go above and beyond and be perfectionistic about every detail.

PP here. I also didn't get a maternity leave. In hindsight, I am sure that my former boss wishes he had been more humane. He got me to work, but the work was of greatly reduced quality and I made his life hard in passive aggressive and difficult to confront ways for sheer spite.

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While your boss certainly sounds awful, and I understand why you wanted to get out of the job, intentionally making crucial mistakes seems unfair to your clients.  [/quote]

The mistakes were more of the variety that made him look like an idiot to our clients and other partners, or at least gave everyone the impression that the right hand didn't know what the left hand was doing (which was the truth anyway).  He had long relied on me to cover his disorganized, ADD behind.  Once I stopped doing so and even started making mistakes of my own that I knew he was too incompetent to catch, I just had to stand back and let everyone see him for what he was.[/quote]

The moral of the story is that bosses like Elon Musk, who are petty and selfish and bully workers at extremely important moments that these moments will never get back, had better watch out.  There are many ways to pay someone back in their own coins while appearing complaisant and hard working.  When you treat people shabbily, you more than kill morale - you breed the kind of resentment that can make people deliberately undermine you.[/quote]

I don't think that happens to most. Steve jobs was known to be a horrible boss and a horrible father at least in the earlier part of his life.. Steve jobs is adulated, was a huge success, had a movie made after him and will be history books as one of the fathers of computer science revolutionizing computers.

I think that people have to come to terms with the fact that the world glorifies innovation and success..even at the expense of personal familial relationships.[/quote]

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