#17: Talking Down on You From Below
Sometimes, management doesn’t even matter when your company is just so bad. Even if you have a good manager, you both can end up getting brought down by a bad and micro-managing company. Some people, however, are confident enough in their own worth that they aren’t willing to take that sitting down, quite literally.

Sometimes you look back on your time in a company and are unable to believe that you handled all of that without leaving sooner, but leaving a known environment and looking for the next challenge is hard, and sometimes there just aren’t many opportunities to stand up for yourself. So when you get the chance, go for it, like this guy did.