Chapter 17 - THE OLD MEN COMPLAIN
At Sunday dinner, Uncle Salvatore said:
“We’re becoming corporate.”
I answered:
“We are managing employees.”
He shook his head.
“Your grandfather handled houses without human resources.”
“Grandfather also smoked in oxygen rooms.”
Irrelevant tradition.
Then another relative said staff used to understand respect.
A chauffeur standing behind him heard.
I asked the chauffeur:
“Do you feel less respected now?”
The uncle nearly died.
The chauffeur answered carefully:
“I feel more certain about my schedule.”
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Good enough.
Old hierarchy hates direct testimony.
