HA!! You're bringing back some bad memories. Living in LA, I've worked quite a lot over the last 10 yrs in the entertainment industry. The one constant in this industry is that it's kind of a small industry overall. So you run into the same people over and over.

My first job in entertainment featured an IT dept where most of management had worked together at a previous job. I've never witnessed such a tight clique in one dept before or after. A buddy of mine who worked on the payroll system said you could tell who was a member of the clique by the salary raises.

I went opposite of the clique. When I left the company I was at with them, I went to the company they had all come from. Someone told me the guy who was VP of IT did sit in front of a meeting and said that he was obviously the best programmer in the company. And that anyone who had a technical problem should visit his office for assistence.

This was back in the FP/DOS and FP/Win days. He forced everyone to use a coding generator that he was familiar with, that produced crappy code by way. Some technical genius.

>>I think everyone's had a male boss at one time or another who has no social life and he want's you to stay with him at work while he works to 9 pm every evening.
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>The worst kind are the alpha male kind, like my previous boss was. He would come in to work and tell all of us that he could do all of our jobs constantly. And then we would have to listen to his war stories, most of which I suspect he made up.