Is there a particular person at your workplace that REALLY gets under your skin? A person whose absense (if he or she were to mysteriously disappear...) might make make you not hate your job (AS MUCH)? Someone who constantly counters your plans and ideas, sending them down in flames before you have a chance to really let them take flight, ensuring that you will remain with the rest of the peons in the bowels of the ship at your oar...

Not that I have any strong feelings about this or anything...

My arch-nemesis' name is the VP/Editor/Personnel Director, Bob. A seemingly innocuos moniker that barely hints at his amazing aptitude for ignorance, exceptional skills of mismanagement, and astounding ability to P!SS ME OFF! I started out as a bottom feeder here, answering the phones and doing order entry crap. We completely tolerated each other at that time. But, the moment I took a step up the ladder to a skilled job (became the Systems Administrator here; or, as I like to put it now: Technology Puppetmaster), and he deigned to pay me a miniscule amount more than I had been getting, I became the enemy. Since then, he seems to have made it his sole duty at work to irritate me to the point of quitting. Which I will never do (well, unless I get a really good job offer), because I cannot let him win. So I press on, hating my job with my whole heart, hoping that one day all my efforts will prove fruitful, and said arch-nemesis goes insane and is committed to a dirty little mental institution that still thinks massive electro-shock therapy and lobotomies are state-of-the-art procedures.

So let's hear everyone else's stories. Who is Dr. Evil to your Austin Powers?