Reflection As I was sifting through some contracts whose terms we were modifying in that grand old business tradition of calculated negotiation it really began to irritate me how much I had to go back and forth over the same things again and again at the direction of my boss. It must be understood that he likes to change things up in agreements whenever he feels the tenor of the negotiation is shifting. I don't know what to make of it considering these are not face to face deals; we're shooting emails back and forth through cyberspace in some weird business waltz where he just changes the steps from time to time in an effort to keep the competition/potential vendor "on their toes". Whatever.

The thought dawned on me that the reason this guy has to run this company is because if he were an employee anywhere else he would be fired pretty fast. I don't know how the guy was before he founded our little enterprise but I do know that he was not in the business world proper. He has a more techincal background. I suspect that difficulties with others in that field might not have played a small role in leading him to start his own business to lord over others with.
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