Am I a baaaad person, or just your garden variety disgruntled former employee?

[Chuck Dye]

A C&W song says "I work for the boss's son, and that makes for a very long day."

For several harvest seasons in the '70s, my boss was Jimmy Burke of Jame Burke & Sons/Truck-A-Way, who actually told me that I should do a trip averaging 70mph in a truck governed at 63mph (in California) stating that he "know(s) what trucks will do."  The same man was heard by most of the fleet's drivers to say "Drivers are a dime a dozen, *expletive deleted*'em!"

I have just had some fun at

SACRAMENTO, CA—United States Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner announced today that James. D. Burke, 59, of Vacaville, was sentenced today by United States District Judge Frank C. Damrell Jr. to 15 months in prison, a $100,000 fine, and a three-year term of supervised release for three counts of bankruptcy fraud. Burke was convicted by a federal jury on May 27, 2010.

and

http://www.wallstreetswindler.com/2011/03/30/vacaville-man-sentenced-in-bankruptcy-fraud-scheme/

wondering if federal pens are as nasty as state pens.  Wondering, too, if I should, perhaps, not be quite so gleeful.  After three decades, I find I still despise the man and believe it couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Note, if you please, the judge's comments on Junior's better qualities.

[Monkeyleg]

No need to feel bad for feeling good. It's nice when jerks finally get theirs.

[Jamie B]

In sentencing Burke, Judge Damrell noted that Burke was a “user of people” who had an “arrogance that he found unsettling.”

That would be these qualities, eh?

One reaps what one sows, and he got his!

Jamie

[Tallpine]

Same kind of "sorrow" that I felt when a store where I used to work finally went bankrupt 

[Chuck Dye]

That would be these qualities, eh?

One reaps what one sows, and he got his!

Jamie

Yup!  Those would be some of Junior's better qualities.

[GigaBuist]

You won't catch any flak from me for feeling happy about it.

A guy I worked for in 2000 just after leaving college was a crook, but I didn't know it at the time.  When venture capital was introduced the company doubled in size and some honest managers were brought in.  After a while they started running stuff by me (a 20 year old college drop out) and it was obvious this dude was scamming people.

We did our level best to make it right with customers, but people lost money on the crook.  One customer in particular took the scam pretty hard. I'm still friendly with the guy.  I told him he got ripped and did my best to fix it for him.

Fast forward 4-5 years after the company went defunct in 2001 and the owner of the place actually asks me to work for him again.  Uh, no.  I basically shot him a long email that ended in telling him the only product he could sell is a book on staying of prison.

Last I heard, from official news sources (that actually called me because I blogged my "go to hell" statement to him) he was ordered to pay the federal government $12 million he earned from selling a "cure" to diabetes and was facing up to 25 years in prison.

Just search for "Techmedica" and you'll see what I'm talking about.

[Lanius]

One venture capital consulting CFO I know well says that in 7 startups he has been involved in.. there were two CEO's who were obvious psychpaths.

Go figure.

[Northwoods]

I've been enjoying a little schadenfreude knowing that the boss I had at Boeing is getting a lot of unwelcome attention from senior management. 

[Lee]

Go Karma.  There are bad people who deserve it when bad things happen to them.  There's nothing wrong with feeling that justice has been served.

[Tallpine]

Go Karma.  There are bad people who deserve it when bad things happen to them.  There's nothing wrong with feeling that justice has been served.

It just doesn't happen often enough 

[Boomhauer]

The kindest thing I can think about two of my former bosses is that I hope that they get raped by syphilitic porcupines...