Yes, you are quite right in saying that
sometimes people need a bit of "tough love" but who are we really to censure and make the decision to humiliate any person into embarassment?
I for one, am not in favour of the eye for an eye principle. Rather I feel that eventually, as in the example given by Wanderer, the unpleasant boss will be eventually hoisted with his own petard by his own foolishness.
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