No such ego here, he did it to everyone once they signed on. No one leaves unless he says so. He had influence and used it, no more, no less. As with any company, he controlled his assets, just in this case, ALL of them. Obviously he could not control the whole town, so all I had to do was switch careers slightly... drop business computing and accounting and jump up a notch. In the end it gave me the incentive to jump ship in more ways than one, I decided to get as far away from his influence as possible.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)