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LuvNewcastle

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6. If they do that, I'll never step in a

Reply to Ichingcarpenter (Original post)

Thu Sep 24, 2015, 05:41 AM

Sep 2015

Target again. That's pretty low to tell your employees that. Ultimately, though, the average employee is far more useful than the average dickhead in upper management.

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