> I'll admit that the base pay wasn't great, though most compensation was bonus based, and the work load was chaotic (very busy one day, nothing for four days), but here's a timeline and I'll let you judge:

What you're describing does kind of sound like some type of a dead-end job. Little pay, fucked up hours, chaotic environment.

> He joined us in August... We launched in November... He started shopping for another job in January... He quit in February...

Sounds like he stuck it out for as long as he could. Two months with no pay will do that.

> I don't mean to drag all this out into the public, but, this op-ed is the definition of adding insult to injury.

All this over one line that names no-one...?

"NOT long ago, I was stuck in a dead-end job near Greenwich, Conn."

I'll assume there is more to this story.