Two Months of Doing Everything Right
Tony didn’t cut corners. When his company asked him to train Ray, the incoming intern, he built documentation from scratch, walked him through every workflow, answered questions he’d already answered twice. Two months of showing someone else exactly how he worked. He treated it like it mattered.
It did matter. Just not in the way Tony expected.
The Meeting That Lasted Four Minutes
HR called him in the day the training period ended. No warning, no context — just a chair across from two people with folders and flat expressions. They told him his position had been “restructured.” Tony asked what that meant.
“Ray can take over your responsibilities for half the cost.” That was the whole explanation. Tony packed his desk and left.
