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** Hank's boss, Buck Strickland isn't exactly a textbook example, but he still fits. A [[Mr. Vice Guy]], his unethical, immoral, and illegal activities include embezzling from his own company and sleeping with female employees, most of which are young enough to be his daughter. He's not even very good at his job, making quite a few poor business decisions, and on more than one occasion, has implied that Strickland Propane would fall apart if Hank wasn't there.

** Jimmy Wichard, however, - from "Life in the Fast Lane, Bobby's Saga", where he's Bobby's boss at the Arlen Speedway concession stand - is indeed a textbook example, as he is literally insane. Even Bobby can tell he "ain't right", and Dale states that Jimmy's stupidity, aggressiveness, and mental instability is a result of staring at the sun too long. (Although Dale also says "He couldn't have been too smart to do something like that in the first place. Kind of a chicken and egg thing".) Whatever the case, Jimmy runs a very [[Dangerous Workplace]], ordering Bobby to do things like stomp down the trash in the dumpster (even though it obviously includes broken glass) and wear a ridiculous-looking hot dog suit while serving customers, who pelt poor Bobby with garbage as he tries to do so. The last straw comes when he orders Bobby to cross the race track to bring him a soda, ''while the race is in progress''. Fortunately, he doesn't get away with this one, as [[Papa Wolf| Hank crosses the track himself and beats the crud out of him.]]

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* [[James Cameron]] is [[Prima Donna Director|widely regarded]] as one. He is frequently described as egotistical and cruel, frequently yelling at people (even at [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], when he went to the bathroom before shooting a scene from ''[[True Lies]]''!), and abusing his crew with anything, from working through meal breaks to spending too much time in water sets (people getting sick during ''[[The Abyss]]'' and ''[[Titanic]]'' were common). As early as the first ''[[Terminator]]'', shirts written "You can't scare me... I work for James Cameron" were common in his sets (while shooting T2, there was also "Terminator 3? Not with me!"). ''[[Titanic]]'' star Kate Winslet stated she only works with Cameron again for "a lot of money".

** On the other hand, he does lead by example - during ''The Abyss'', he was usually first into the big tank and last out, working on script edits as he decompressed (it was that big a tank). During ''True Lies'', he insisted on doing the camera work shooting Jamie Lee Curtis dangling from the helicopter personally, under the principle that he's not going to theoretically endanger his lead while he sat safely on the ground. The camera work in question involved being harnessed up so he could lean out an open 'copter door with said heavy camera on his shoulder dozens of feet above the Florida Keys.

* Chairman Mao Zedong, who was utterly ruthless against any Chinese Communist Party official he felt might upstage him or harm his legacy after death. Liu Shaoqi was imprisoned, denied medical treatment for an illness, and died in a jail cell covered in his own vomit and diarrhea; Lin Biao and most of his family died in a plane crash while fleeing a purge; Zhou Enlai, who had served Mao faithfully as premier for decades, died of untreated bladder cancer. Why was it untreated? Because Mao not only forbade the doctors to treat the cancer, he forbade them from telling Zhou ''he even HAD cancer.'' Little wonder that the Gang of Four, who were close to Mao, were all in jail within a '''month''' of his death.

* Pol Pot's solution when he considered there were to many people for his regime to maintain. "To keep you is to no benefit, to destroy you is to no loss".

 

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