He never knew

I've been looking for an outlet for this confession for many years and 'The Straight" seems a good place to do it, as many of the readers will get a laugh out of it. I used to supervise a guy in my team who was a total fuck- up, everything he did caused trouble and he had a giant chip on his shoulder. He was lazy, devious and took advantage of everybody and everything. I remember feeling total pity for his girlfriend who started to show signs of wear and tear only a few weeks after they got together.. but I digress. It was my job to do his staff report and I pulled no punches.I presented the written word to him and of course he hit the roof (much to my delight) But the organisation I worked for couldn't let the report go through with the actual truth spelled out. They made me re-write it so that it would meet with his reluctant satisfaction. So I did re-write it and the fuck-up signed it with a suspicious look on his face. He was right to be suspicious as I coded in an acrostic where the first letter of each sentence spelled out "Dickhead". It was lots of fun to give people the key to the code when they phoned up for confirmation of, what on the surface, was a glowing report. The world needs more people like me!

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Can't you leave anything alone?

Aug 21, 2014 at 9:58am

I hope one day you get a taste of your own medicine; I think you deserve it.

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My hope

Aug 21, 2014 at 10:48am

Just
Expressing my hope that
Reciprocal
Karma visits you

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Crushaholic

Aug 21, 2014 at 11:02am

What has the working world come to when you can't even submit an objective performance review? Oh wait, I have friend who worked for a large corporation...she was laid off for "performance" reasons (her results weren't stratospheric...well, nobody's was, not even mine, and I never got laid off). Management mixed some lies in with the truth and their managers accepted their story.

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Paul

Aug 21, 2014 at 11:24am

That's awesome. I am going to remember that strategy.

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cul de sac

Aug 21, 2014 at 5:49pm

you sound like a sadist who loves to pull rank; get over yourself.

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