A guard ushers Teddy into my office.  I stare at Teddy for a bit and then I lecture, “Teddy, when I worked for your ex company, I had to work for your boy.  You and your boy wanted to force me to work a field assignment, a field assignment that would have destroyed my career.  You demoted me from my Project Manager job and replaced me with your boy, Matt.  Matt had and has no idea of how to develop real-time software.  I know how to develop real-time software.  I discovered a problem and, after I finally managed to get the software people, from the computer manufacturer, in to fix their software, I got the job done.  It took a while to get the software people in, since Matt had no idea what the problem was.  The wasted time cost the project and the company a lot of money.”

Teddy sneers, “Jim, that would seem to be between you and Matt.”

“Teddy, Matt works for you.  While Matt failed to address my problem, he also failed to address the problem that Tanya was supposedly developing the device specific software.  Tanya later told several of us that she did no work on the device specific software, that all of the device specific software work was done by Henry.  However, for some six months, Tanya was charging her time to Matt’s project.  After six months of no work, for time charged, you promoted Tanya to Project Manager of a new project, maybe as a reward.  Tanya was in no way qualified to be a Project Manager.  Tanya lacked the usual time in grade to be qualified as a Project Manager and she also lacked the technical background to run her project.  Tanya then hired people to staff her new project.  The people that Tanya hired also lacked the usual time in grade to be qualified for their specialty and they also lacked the needed technical background, for their work title.  As a result, Tanya’s project had to be rescued, by qualified senior people, press ganged from other projects.  The effect of the personnel transfers negatively impacted a lot of other company work.  The senior people assigned to Tanya’s project were and are very unhappy.  I later hired some of the senior people, for a new company.  As a result, I have had to issue a memo forbidding people to use synecdoche, when referring to Tanya.  The ladies, here at my company, tell me that it’s believed that Tanya used the pussywhip on at least one member of management.  I told the ladies, ‘I’m not afraid of the pussywhip.’  ‘Are you afraid of the pussywhip?’  The ladies told me that they were not afraid of the pussywhip.  They also told me that, since your wife got herself a divorce lawyer, she’s no longer afraid of the pussywhip.”

Teddy sneers, “Keep yourself out of my personal affairs.”

“Fair enough, if you’ll keep your wife and her divorce lawyer out of the business affairs of my company.”

Teddy leans forward, “Yes, I’m in some trouble.  However, I still have a lot of power in this town.  You might keep that in mind, in case you ever have to look for another job.”

It’s my turn to sneer, “Teddy, while you were playing political games, I was speculating in the stock market.  I took a lot of chances, that did work out.  I now don’t need to have a paycheck to support myself.”

Teddy studies me for a bit.

I lecture, “For real.  Teddy, you claimed to have developed a product, that your company sold.  There was another guy, who worked for your ex company, who also claimed to have developed the same product, that your company sold.  The other guy was forced out of your company.  Then, when the product that you claimed to have developed didn’t work, in a specific environment, the government claims that you tried to fake test results.  The government broke down your Project Manager and he confessed that he faked the test results, at your order.  The government then retested the product that you claimed to have developed and the tests failed.