Misery loves company
My previous boss was, without a doubt, an arsehole of the highest order. I'm not just saying that because of the various disputes I had with him during our working relationship -- he's widely reviled in the small town where I live as a result of years spent routinely ripping people off. He's been directly responsible for the failure of a number of small businesses due to non-payment of bills.

Anyway the company he owned, and I worked for, went under (due to his mismanagement) leaving my and several other employees owed several months' back pay plus severance pay etc. Cut a long story short, to try to get something of what was owed we went to court and after nearly 18 months -- during which time he made every effort to stall the process -- we finally won and got...well, some of what we were due.

The small victory was hearing that (due to an unrelated matter) he'd been forced into bankruptcy. He'd had to sell his enormous country mansion (no exaggeration), take his six (count 'em) kids out of private school and send them to state school, etc. etc.

Gotta love a bit of schadenfreude.
( reallywittyname veraciously conspues lexiphanicism on, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 13:33, 1 reply)

Stupid man.
Really, if you're in a position where you might be declared bankrupt without having your house and most of your assets in your wife's name (or in a trust of some kind), you deserve to lose 'em. And your claim about mismanagement looks as though it's right on the money.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Thu 10 Feb 2011, 14:20, closed)