My favorite comments I will never forget from my ex-CTO: "you are wrong about this, because I say you are wrong." [turned out: he was dead wrong!] "stay home

My favorite comments I will never forget from my ex-CTO: "you are wrong about this, because I say you are wrong." [turned out: he was dead wrong!] "stay home if you want to answer phonecall from your dad." [knowing he is in the hospital] "today you have been all day on the phone." [after talking with dad for 3 min 35 sec] "stop pinging google to check if the net is working." "ping doesn't tell you anything." "I hate those Chrome tabs -- they are affecting my search results." "I'm a CTO - I can be rude." "Don't work here if you have family." "If we succeed with this project [24-months period], we may get million dollars bonus" [perfectly knowing its impossible and simply not true] "I fixed Asia!" -"Cool!" -"What did you do?" -"At 3am? I was with my wife and kids." -"Well, I hope that helped alot in your career." [next day, after he IT-supported Asia at 3am] "You see my desk? Apple, Apple, Apple..." "You are on a McDonalds French Fry Guy schedule, ha!" [after working 14 hours straight from 7am till 9pm] "You work long hours and are not paid for those, because you are upper managment and should be proud of it". [after working 14 hours straight] "Don't ask for that, you are not upper managment!" [when something failed to work and needed to figure the details to troubleshoot] "You are upper managment, you should know this!" [when I didn't know something IT-related] "You won't get the bonus, you are not upper managment!" [bonus question around Christmas time] [email provider down; on the phone with support] "Why are you calling them? chat-support is faster!" [days later, the same issue; on the chat] "Stop wasting time on chat, just grab a phone and call them!" [after 12 hours straight work on 8hr schedule] "I completed the project, I am going home" -"Fine with me, as long as you are Symfony Framework specialist" [next day after staying extra 2 hours to understand basics of Symfony Framework] -"Never mind, we won't use them anyway!" Those were the perks.. there were some better here and there, but honestly I started making notes way too late. But my tech-friends always loved to ask whats new with my CTO. They used to call him "Chief Toilet Officer", because frankly speaking he couldn't do shit right.