re: Any of you ever have a-hole bosses that you had to deal with?

One supreme dick head who had just been given me and my teams a couple weeks previous and up until then had been my peer. He thought it would be cool to big dog me with a PIP. But being the complete dipshit he is, forgot that I was about to close a big deal to fund the company up to the IPO. So, I quit, they fixed some shite and kept me, I closed the deal and took my IPO bonus and left. Now they're one of my bigger clients.

Moral of the story is try not to be a bigger dick. Usually there's someone who's reasonable and it's never fun to burn bridges.