Originally Posted by Quentin

Normally, I'd be in 100% agreement with you on the 'karma' front, but in this case, Chris absolutely brought the parade of relentless schadenfreude on himself.

His deplorable conduct since his (ultimately very short-lived) new gig was announced completely dissolved any sympathy or empathy I conceivably might have been able to muster for someone in his situation.

It isn't simply a matter of his being deeply, fundamentally unprofessional over the last few weeks (there's nothing at all unusual about that in this space, after all), it's that he was so completely ineffective in communicating anything of value on behalf of his erstwhile employer while playing out his little Charlie Sheen 'winning' fantasy. To top it all off, his antics were just plain uninteresting; there was nothing remotely entertaining or compelling about any of it.

As such, in this instance, I simply have no pathos for the pathetic.