Obviously, fake name. Anyways, a while ago, I was working a contract for a rather significant pharmaceutical company.

Our manager was great. Attentive, offered good career advice when you needed it, always had your back when the proverbial hit the fan, and guided us through some difficult times with lunch on the company card. The guy was excellent – one of the few times I could hand-on-heart say it!

However, good things don’t last and as higher-ups decided that Support was way too happy, decided to dispose of our leader.

Enter Angie… there are few words to describe Angie. We’d heard tell of her actions and personality through her previous subjects during our morning coffees around the campfire.

Apparently, she would snipe and shout at you for merely existing and apply the logic of a 3-year-old suffering major attention deficit disorder.

Angie had been in charge of drug safety for about a decade.

Now, from what I could tell, these guys seemed to be very well versed in everything from chemistry, to biology and some were even former doctors. None of this sheer brilliance washed with Angie; she merely treated them like tools that she had no idea how to use and would bang with a hammer when they worked her way – even if her way was clearly stupid.

Still – judge no book by its cover and all that!

Angie arrived in Support a day early mere moments after our former hero had walked. She immediately proceeded to command facilities to join her at her desk, where she chewed out a 17-year-old girl mercifully due to there being dust on her desk and grit in her drawers.

This relentless torture went on for a good 20 minutes while Angie inspected every inch of the girl’s effort to appease her whims, even re-cleaning several spots more than once.

Afterwards, she walked away red-faced, eyes to the ground and with a lump in her throat after just about getting the words to indicate she will have her drawer pack replaced with a brand new unit.

We all knew it was to be a new world order with Angie’s arrival; we would have thought her showing up a day early was to meet and greet the troops… it was very apparent to me that she was just a vicious troll marking her territory, showing everyone who was boss!

She was like hitler reincarnated.

Suffice it to say, we finished up the day typing up CVs and comparing layouts.