I'm a Jerk I had to have the boss fill out this form today that is required by a certain government agency before we can qualify to do X in X state. After filling out as much of it as I could, I smiled to myself when I realized that there was a section on criminal history and if you have been convicted of a crime which one, explain, etc. I knew he would have to do more than sign off on this form, because as an officer of the corporation he would have to actually delve into his past and put his time in jail on paper, which may possibly jeopardize the agency's approval of his corpoation doing what it wants to do in X state.

I feel bad for taking delight in this. Its not right. I should not be experienceing schadenfreude, I don't think of myself as "that type of person." Usually I'm quite empathetic, and while I still am in this case, I think that I feel the littlest bit of glee in knowing that he is going to have to own up to his past and take some responsibility. I have a big problem with my employer and his lack of responsibility. I guess that I would respect him more if I knew he had "paid his dues" or had some respectable story. As it stands now I don't respect him much. Its kind of hard to work for someone you don't respect. I am just now beginning to understand this.

In other news we gave him his Christmas present today. It was a nice gift, one which we all were compelled to chip in on for fear of being left off the "donors" list which #2 was tracking. We didn't know what the gift would be when our arms were being twisted for our "donations". God help you if you're left off the donors list. I don't know what he'd do -- take back your company "gift"? Oh wait, he was going to do that anyway if you didn't show up to his party. Jerk.  ¶ 3:39 PM