VP of Biz Dev for a web services start up that was owned by a self-medicating, chain-smoking, obese 70 yr old retired medical doctor. Mind you - MD selling software to the trucking industry....
I have never worked in such a toxic environment. As far as we could tell, the guy established the company to make himself relevant - meaning so he could have people to bitch at and make miserable. I loved the job & the opportunity but the environment & the behavior of the place, specifically him, were toxic. For ex -
- the head of his customer support staff was this 60 yr old bitch he's been fucking for 20 yrs despite the fact that she's married. She's a complete parasite and acted like she was God's gift. And had the balls to order people around & treat them like shit. Luckily the software side of the house blew her out of the water so she stayed the hell away from us.
- after his whole sales team quit, the guy would go himself on sales trips. And he'd go on a leased Lear jet. $20K / trip minimum. He was such a fat ass, he needed the whole back seat to sit. And the worst part was the smoking. He never stopped smoking. We called the plane "The Nicotine Express". No consideration at all for the people around him. He even blew smoke into the faces of clients and didn't even realize how disgusted they were. But you'd have to burn your clothes to get rid of that cigarette smell after a trip.
- the topper for me -- he offered me a free trip in the Lear jet up to my parents' house for a weekend because he was flying him & his kid up to Canada to go fishing. I was like, wow, how thoughtful! But here's what really happened. He flies me & the bitch up to Milwaukee to drop her off at the Milwaukee office & pick up his kid & their fishing gear. Then we fly over to my home town in MN. As we're getting off, he leans over & tells me "I'm going to pick up a friend here. I'd appreciate if you don't tell anyone." First, I was like -hey its your plane - I could give a shit what you do. The "friend" was his OTHER mistress who he took up to Lake of the Woods for the week. Then on the way back, he dropped her off again when he picked me up in MN and then back to Milwaukee to pick up the FIRST bitch and back to FL.
As soon as I got back from that trip, I gave my notice and quit a week later.
What a foul person.