My boss likes to reminisce about his old army days. Most of the time, he busts out with an old-fogey “Back when I was” story. “In the Army we’d yada yada yada.” “There would never be this kind of issue in the Army because they blah blah blah.” He was a drill sergeant or something once upon a time. He said “you’d always get a few people who were ‘the smilers.’ They always got something to smile about and they look so stupid smiling about nothing.” But training people to fight to kill is very serious so on the first day he would yell at people to “Wipe that stupid grin off your face! What are you smiling about?! How about you give me some pushups and you can smile about that??” The unbelievable thing is, he can’t even keep a straight face himself most of the time. But I guess once upon a time, he was a trained a-hole. I asked him if he’s ever tried those methods on his 12-year old. “No. It doesn’t work.”
Anyway, I have my annual review with him today. Hopefully he doesn’t wipe the stupid grin off my face by the end of it.
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