Our Dean lost his secretary and won’t be allowed to hire a new one. I was the only person who felt compassion towards him over it. I think I might have even posted about it here.
My compassion brought typically neoliberal results. The Dean decided to take my secretary away. There are 50 others to choose from but he homed in on mine.
I never voiced my compassion to him. This works on a different plane than any direct tit-for-tat. But compassionate suckers who leak emotions invariably get punished. It’s how the system works.
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