UNITED STATES
The Worthy Adversary
Posted by Joelle Casteix on August 14, 2015
Here’s a hypothetical:
Your boss borrows your car and runs over your beloved dog Rover in the company’s parking garage. When your boss returns the car, you ask him about your dead dog and the blood stains all over the bumper. He denies all knowledge.
When confronted with video surveillance footage, your boss finally admits that he did run over your dog, but claims that “he thought he did the right thing for you and Rover.” He is not fired. In fact, he is backed up by the company and remains in his job for three more years, where he supervises your work and is your “go-between” to higher management.
You can’t quit because you are under contract. After those three years, your boss resigns. But he keeps his paycheck and gets to go on all of the company golf outings free of charge.
Soon after the resignation and well-publicized golf outings, your company invites you to come to a “healing meeting” where you are invited to heal from the pain of losing your dog. Your boss is invited, too.
The company will be collecting donations for the “coffee fund” at the meeting, so attendees are asked to bring their checkbooks. Your company also invites the press. When the press calls you about the meeting, you tell them that you aren’t going.
You are portrayed in the media as angry and ungrateful for not participating. Ridiculous? You bet it is.
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