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The Fool Doth Think He is Wise | A Little More Than Kin, and Less Than Kind
Enemies right under the blanket.
Then came the best of all: the opportunistic relatives. Enemies right under the blanket.
The shadow his mother planted was just as skilled at treating Don like an absolute idiot, performing theatrical bursts of labor only when eyes were fixed upon him, but never really actually lifting a finger to ensure tasks and projects were completed on time.
He took his own sweet time at work each day, stretching out long breaks to stream Netflix while everyone else broke their backs under the brutal hot summer afternoon.
He snail-walked around the company making everyone else’s work life miserable until the hours and days passed by, just to collect his paycheck. He had been pulling this ultimate heist for years.
Projects crashed and burned, costs ballooned for no good reason, and countless corrections were required to fix stupid mistakes — all thanks to his monumental laziness and incompetence.
Employees fled the building like clockwork having to endure his abuse with zero recourse. Challenging someone like that is a fool’s errand. It just puts a target on your back while nothing ever changes. There are better working environments and paychecks…
