I've had a weird episode in a job. Pressure was immense and the boss had the nice habit of calling everybody Friday evening or just before an extended holiday t

I've had a weird episode in a job. Pressure was immense and the boss had the nice habit of calling everybody Friday evening or just before an extended holiday to berate everybody's work, threat to close the branch etc. Everybody sat tight because the business was lucrative and expected to find the gold pot at the end of the rainbow, you know. I resisted about 1.5 years. At April 21, 2003 I began to tremble and it wouldn't go. At April 30 evening, the boss did the usual show like clockwork (May 1 is holiday here) and then I quit. (Funny how I remember days, even the hours, of this episode.) Any kind of contact or just passing by the street where the business was located, the trembling resurfaced. Was a hard lesson about how you bump your limit, damage is done and you don't see it coming. Other people continued to work there under God-knows-what medication. They kind of improved the treatment of people after I quit, to the point of forbidding the boss of going to developer's room. But no developer got rich, either. Empty promises.