I worked at a company that hired a “celebrity” CEO once specifically to do a deal with his former company. It was clear from the moment it all started that the deal was fucked and that we were going to end up out of business because of it.

I work for a publishing company. Our CEO started a speech, “If you don’t write stories or don’t sell ads, you’re overhead.” He was also building a mult-million dollar house in a market where most of our employees couldn’t afford the rent, and had neither written a story, nor sold an ad, ever. I was 34, and this is…