Well, Drew.  I've never met a self proclaimed prick, just men I deemed as
such.  It's a refreshing pleasure to meet the real you. :-)

Actually, I used to work for someone quite similar to Ray, and couldn't
wait to leave.  I was writing documentation for the Health Care Finance
Administration (the people who oversee Medicare).  They didn't know how
their own programming worked, so they asked a team of us to interpret the
programs and write technical papers to explain how Medicare works.  One of
the processes wasn't used any more, but we wanted to document it because
there was a good chance it would soon come back into use.  At the top of
the documentation, in bold font, I wrote, "This process is currently
dysfunctional."  Upon reading this, my boss asked if "dysfunctional" was
really spelled "disfunctional".  I told him that it wasn't, and even looked
it up for him in the dictionary.  He then asked me if I could please change
the documentation to "disfunctional" because everyone would think
"dysfunctional" was a misspelling, just as he had!  That's when I decided
to quit.  That, and later when I told him my female boss had a lot of
chutzpah, and still didn't get it when I said her cajones were bigger than
his.  Definitely management material (probably why I'm a manager now;-)).

- Pam