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Spiting Yourself
I know someone who was passed over for a promotion that everyone assumed he would get. He’d earned it. He deserved it. He had been doing that job without the promotion for well over a year. But when the time came, someone else got hired. He even had to train that person. Needless to say,…
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M.A.D. — Mutually Assured Dysfunction
I have a distant acquaintance who is a very self-destructive alcoholic. Watching him is like witnessing a train wreck in slow motion. And it’s even more tragic because when he’s off the sauce, he seems to be able to lead a very successful life. Alas, he’s almost never sober. A couple years ago he met…