My boss was a former manager at a larger company who was caught in downsizing.  We met the first time off site and the second time we toured the plant and then met offsite again.  He really lied to me.  I am not sure if he was really lying or had convinced himself that his fantasy was true.

The first day on the job, I wore a tie.  Then I met the big boss.  He was dressed in a work uniform with a brimless hat.  He looked like Muammar Gaddafi.  Then he threatened to cut my tie off (and he was actually serious).

Things went from bad to worse.  My “office” was to be a table in the electronics lab in the shop.  The second day there, I called the headhunter who got me the job and told him to keep looking and get me out of there.

Eventually, my boss got me a cubicle.  Every time I tried to do a project in a professional way, I was told that we didn’t need that.

One day “Muammar” asked me to fix this “thing” in the plant.  It was a measuring device.  The company that made it was out of business.  There was no documentation.  And no one knew how it was supposed to work.  He was quite beside himself when I could not magically make it work.

Finally, another headhunter got me hired in a MUCH better job.