Expecting a bonus

Ashwin Goyal

Aug 27, 2024

“You know, discretionary means I don’t have to pay it, right?”

He stared, “But... it's an expected discretionary bonus.”

"Can you unexpect it?"

"No chance in hell."

Suggesting crazy ideas

"Give me ideas, people—the crazier, the better." “So, what if we launch our next product… into space?” someone suggested, barely keeping a straight face. “Wow, I love it.” Confidence growing, they continued, “Ooh, and we crash it back onto Earth as a meteor, then ‘discover’ it in

Doing too much

“Hey, you need to dial it back,” one of them said. “Yeah, seriously, you’re making the rest of us look bad,” another added. He blinked, confused. “But I’m just doing my job.” “Exactly,” they groaned in unison. “You’re doing too much of it.”