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Jason X
  • Jun 19, 2018
  • 4 min

The User Pool - Chapter 1. Blair

The day Mulhausen shot the CIO in Weekly Staff was bad for worse reasons than that. It was also the day Blair found out that I had sex with my wife. “You fucking prick!” She yelled, standing in the doorway of my meager 120 ceiling tile office. “It didn’t mean anything,” I said defensively with scrupulous aplomb. “So you admit it?” “I meant, the message she left me. You admit getting into my voicemail again?” “You fucked your wife, you sonofabitch. That means something.” Some
Jason X
  • Feb 15
  • 5 min

The User Pool - Chapter 2. Delegation

The day Mulhausen shot the CIO in Weekly Staff was good for more reasons than one. It’s the day traffic was jammed up for miles and made my morning commute almost an hour and a half long. I used to get most of my work done in the car going to and from the office every day, so on that particular day, it was a very productive morning commute. I knew what had to be done each day and each day on my morning commute I would get on my Motorola cell phone/walkie-talkie and delegate i
Jason X
  • Jun 18, 2018
  • 2 min

Corporate Rule: Don't Lie and Rarely Tell the Truth

Some old book somewhere said, "... You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free." In office politics, the truth shall get you fired. I'm not telling you to lie; just don't tell the truth. Here's the difference: George Washington admitted he cut down the cherry tree when he was cornered by his father. He said: "I cannot tell a lie, father, you know I cannot tell a lie! I did cut it with my little hatchet." Did he tell the truth? Not exactly. But did he lie? No. Th