At least there was a lesson ;) My first job out of college was with a high-end security company (biometric systems at Langley, DOD, etc.) I was hired by the

At least there was a lesson ;) My first job out of college was with a high-end security company (biometric systems at Langley, DOD, etc.) I was hired by the National Sales Director. They flew me across the country and put me up in a nice hotel for my first meeting with the CEO and for training on their monitoring systems. They had spent at least a few grand on my trip. I walked into the first meeting, and the CEO looked up and saw me. "Get that motherf*cker out of my sight!!!! I don't want to see him again until he's fixed!!!" He was apoplectic. A bunch of no-neck guys from Philly and NYC (I was later told some of the investors were mobsters) ushered me out of the room. I was shaken up, because it was my first job and I had no idea what I had done wrong. The guy who hired me told me to go back to the hotel and enjoy the pool...and that he would talk to me later. No indication as to whether I was fired or what was going on. My nerves went to hell while I was waiting for him to call me. And my wife wanted to know why my 'important meetings' had only lasted three minutes. It turns out the CEO has a huge issue with non-white dress shirts. He thought anything other than plain white was unprofessional and offensive. (I was wearing a blue dress shirt that my wife had bought me as a gift.) He decided he would rather waste several thousand dollars and have me come back another time than see a non-white dress shirt. He was successful enough that most people humored his eccentricities. [I had another boss that would go absolutely nuts if you shut any door in the building. He would almost foam at the mouth. He had a phobia of closed doors because of something that had happened to him in foster care. He fired at least one girl because she kept shutting doors out of habit.] I think if a boss is going to have frequent asylum-quality meltdowns, it's nice when you can at least learn something beyond "This person is crazy. Be careful." It sounds like Steve learned an important lesson, even if the instructor was unpleasant.