I worked at this company for almost two years.  I can barely believe that I spent that much of my life there.  I hated that place.  On my first day I was so depressed that this was what I had been reduced to, the place had a horribly depressing vibe. 

When I first interviewed with the person I would be working for, the position seemed like a dream come true.  She said they were at the beginning stage of a full building renovation and one of the many projects I would be working on was the coordination of all of that work.  She presented herself as a nurturing mentor who would be counting on me to be her right hand. The starting salary was low but the raises would be generous and often.   I was ecstatic!

The reality was forget about raises and everything else she said... The only renovation that actually happened  to the building was to a very small portion of the building that was absolutely critical to her being able to acquire new business.  The rest of the project she ditched because she was too cheap to put money into the work environment for her employees. The money was there, she just did not want to spend it on that.  The work was stupid and brain-dead.  And after just a short time I found out that, rather than the nurturing mentor she presented herself as, she was a drug-addicted (diet pills and pain killers), self-absorbed Class 1 bi-yatch.  She would take European vacations and get face lifts, lipo and boob jobs done on her company AMEX and expect all of us employees to hide the trail and back up her alibis to the company's owner.   I AM NOT MAKING THIS UP!

After about a year and a half of this, and right before Christmas, my daughter got sick.  I called in three days in a row to stay home with my daughter, who had the flu and on the second day she told me that, as per company policy, if I did not show up the following day I would be terminated.  Well I wasn't leaving my sick daughter home and so called in again on the third day.  She said, "You know what this means" and I said "yes."

So I filed for unemployment and the company denied me!!! Unbelievable! Well I am not a confrontational person but I fought their denial of my benefits with the state and WON!  The arbitrator who heard my case was disgusted that the company would have let me go like that!  Go me!!!

Well, a decade later, here is the rest of the story.  After I left the company I made 4 well-placed calls.  The first was to the IRS to report her for taking personal expenses (European vacations and plastic surgeries) out of the company earnings.  As her personal assistant I knew enough about the inner workings of the company's accounting setup to know she would get busted for these things.  Also I called OSHA, the State Board of Equalization and the EPA (the company was a cosmetic manufacturing plant and all of these things were places where getting these agencies breathing down her back would be a major inconvenience at best).   Well, HAHAHAHAHA, Karma is a bi-yatch too.  Oh, and one other thing -- my daughter was not sick, I just wanted the hell out of there so bad and needed the unemployment checks so I could look for another job.

MICHAEL BLATTMAN, 58, took a prudent path to a successful business career. Armed with an M.B.A., he started with the federal government, working at the General Accounting Office and Federal Reserve, before moving to the Sallie Mae student loan program, where he rose to be director of national sales.

From 2001 to 2008 he was a senior vice president for a private student-loan company and at his high point earned $225,000 a year in salary and bonuses, he says. He also taught business courses at the University of Maryland; lived in a 4,000-square-foot home in upscale Potomac, Md., and drove a Mercedes.

And then, in short order, this stable life came undone. When his younger of two children was almost ready for college, Mr. Blattman asked his wife of 25 years for a divorce.

Today I ran out of the house with 2 different shoes on!  What a retard! I got made fun of all day!