• These bosses never shared important information with me even when it was in their best interests to do so (I had done that when "at the top").
• These bosses were heavy handed, imperious, and manipulative in their dealings with me (as I been often in the past with others of my staff).
• They were uncaring about the needs or the comfort of me as their staff putting duty and mission above all (me, me, me in the past).
• They never cut me any slack which would have been helpful given my appalling state of health (I never cut people slack and hated slackers).

Of course, for most of my life I was on the "train tracks" of karma. So I went through all this "work karma" - having forgotten that I had agreed to this and why I had agreed to this - feeling like a "major victim".

I changed jobs a few times but always with the same results leaving me feeling that this was the "way work is". So I bore these jobs without grinning much, the constant question on my lips of "Why 'poor little' me?"

Then I came to the mature decision that "it is no use complaining about the air when it is the only thing to breath". Being put through the "ring of oppression" finally had it's desired effect. I became far less dictatorial and domineering and far more compassionate and sympathetic in my dealings with others.

It became deeply ingrained in me to think through my actions by weighing carefully the consequences to other people who my decisions would effect as well as factoring in empathy for the "next person in the chain".

Case Learnings: For me, this was a dramatic change because for centuries I had a very severe case of the "Napoleonic" attitude.

For those unfamiliar with this syndrome, Napoleon Bonaparte - when asked how he could abandon his flank to starve and freeze to death in Russia - answered, "I never worry about human life, it is the only thing that takes care of itself" (BTW, this is super bad karma!).