The responses to my retirement post are a real eye opener.

[FrankTC]

5. Until It Happens To You

Most people have no idea how miserable it can be to work under hostile supervision. Day after day under the scrutiny of someone who wants you to fail, wants you gone, seemingly hates you and everything about you -- someone who will craft subtly impossible assignments and excoriate you for not doing the impossible -- for whom nothing you can do will suffice . . . . Nowadays maybe this situation isn't so dire, because there are alternative jobs out there. But in the past, if you lost a job you could be swirling for months around the abyss of total loss. And to find out that in our at-will-employment culture, you have very few rights, very few protections. And nobody much cares. All the more galling because you can find yourself at the mercy of a dark-triad, personality-disordered boss purely by chance, by no fault of your own . . . . Well, that's capitalism for ya. Retirement looks pretty good in comparison, even if not in the lap of luxury.