How to Speak Your Mind

When I was in high school, I had a job in the lucrative food service industry. One of my coworkers was perhaps the least intelligent person I’ve ever known. Like all truly stupid people, he believed himself to be far smarter than most of the people he met. One day he started popping off about how the restaurant manager was “just about the biggest dumb-s**t in the world.” We pointed out that the manager had hired him, but he didn’t see what we were getting at.

None of us went much out of our way to defend the manager beyond that. None of us wanted to look like suck ups, and also, we all knew the manager was a horrifying racist, so that dulled our enthusiasm.

It was not a great job.

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