Once again - who has spectacularly bad reading comp.? ya it's you. I already told you MY boss was cooking the books and this was when cell phones were still pretty new and fancy and had just been super pricey in the years leading up to that time period. You still seem to think this happened recently, even though I've said more than once that I misread "had this been 15 years ago I would have done the same" where I MIS READ it as "This has been 15 years ago, I would have done the same..." see what I mean. I DID misread what you said, but only the TIME FRAME.
My incident - with this phone store and ex boss happened in 2001, not recently. We were selling the phones that were big right before the Razr launched. It was pretty easy back then to mark a $300 phone to $600 and claim it was due to the extended warranty that didn't exist, or some bonus feature that wasn't real, people were stupid back then - my boss was a DIRTY mother fucker, I already said this, which is why I thought YOU were him. The first phone that had a camera he marked up to like 300% MSRP and people still bought them in droves.
I sold my business because it was more profitable to take the 2m and run than it was to wait for it long term at the time, and I had 2 other research projects that needed funding, and this doesn't even bring up the fact that I disliked the business in general and was more into the service side of the tech industry. I currently have 24 subordinate technicians and next month will be accepting a promotion that will basically put me one level beneath the CEO.
Once again - reading comp, maybe go back and start over. I already said the reason I stopped giving him 110% was because he lied to me about my pay rate, I discovered he was gouging customers and cooking the books while pocketing the difference, (I honestly wouldn't be surprised if he got caught eventually and went to the big house.) and he would go on these self righteous "people just don't work hard anymore!" rants while being a lazy shit himself. He was the guy who would claim no one needed his taxes and he shouldn't have to pay them but then would file for social security when he gets old, and expect firefighters to save his house.
Childish rant? Dude I even predicated by saying "This is EITHER me, or NOT." Get it? You are the one that decided "Even though I know I'm not this guys ex boss, I'm going to get all angry as if I was. All you had to say was this: I didn't say that this HAPPENED 15 years ago, I said Had it been 15 years ago I would have done the same thing." And I would have said "Oh well glad it wasn't you because first off the odds are incredible and no one wants to be my ex boss, he was corrupt as fuck! Crazy how similar the story was to my first major firing in life..." See how that works.
(In retrospect I should have used the "he" instead of "you" pronoun and I can see how it seemed like a personal attack, but dude, you have to realize, this story you have told is TO A FREAKING T exactly the way my ex boss would declare it went down, I honestly took offense because I was sitting here going "Uh uh mother fucker - you already stole thousands and lied to all your employees you're not going to sit on Reddit 15 years later and slander my name still, I'm telling the truth on this one..." I REALLY thought you were my ex boss.