The Manager

This was written before Biden dropped out. It was posted at Soylent News in June.
 
The boss hired a manager a while back. He was a lazy loudmouth who thought he was a genius. We suspected him of embezzlement but had no proof.
He constantly neglected his duties, or assigned his duties to an underpaid incompetent. He was simply a really shitty manager.
Then one day in the break room, he threw one of his tantrums and hurled a bottle of ketchup against the wall, and insisted that someone else clean it up. The boss fired him, and hired another guy.
This poor fellow was hired at exactly the wrong time. First, he inherited all of the problems the previous, incompetent manager had caused. There was a pandemic, and stores like ours that were allowed to open had few customers, many of whom threatened the poor store manager and his clerks with death for asking them to follow store policy and wear masks.
Then there were the shortages, of everything. Everyone blamed the poor manager.
Meanwhile it was found that the first guy the boss fired had been found guilty of rape in a civil court case, and guilty of thirty four felonies he had committed before the boss hired him.
Now the idiotic boss wants to fire the present manager and rehire the first guy. “Well, we never had those problems with HIM!”
9/11/24