If I may add a short note (more like questions) to this....

So I have experienced working for three different companies...very small companies (under 30 people), Small-Mid company (my recent company) of about 500 people and Big size company (1000 people..>$1 billion plus)

There are pluses and minuses and the stereotypes so far are:

Big companies really milk you for what its worth...long hours, etc. But my experience with the bigger company (the one prior to my last one) that they take harrasment and similar incidents more seriously (or at least the managers are more aware of their behavior?)

Small companies- more reasonable hours, but HR people may not have the teeth since the owner has control over what's going on...or the HR dept sometimes function just to take care of health care benefits, etc.

I've seen a few articles, message boards about bad managers and what they can do to the workforce. One of the articles mentioned that 90% of Americans have worked for a bad manager at least once in their lives..it's just an amazing number. Looking back almost 19 months ago I hope my expectation was not too idealistic? I asked for Respect (no condescending remarks like "I will treat you like a subordinate from now on"), no making fun of my personal info (race, religion, etc), not taking credits for my work, not giving me a hard time if I just happened to leave an hour early, etc...

Kinda a rethorical question...is a good, professional, fair, respectful manager just a myth? I mean it all boils down to treat others how you want to be treated yet, why certain people would just be abusive towards others?

Sorry this is kinda a first time thing for me to deal with somebody with all this problem and I'm jut curious.

On a different note...I've saved enough money to just hang out, not worry about work for a few months..perhaps focusing more on my music