Taking stock of your greatest assets

摘要

People. They're a nightmare, aren't they? They can be confrontational. Awkward. Lazy. Some of them have a seemingly unfeasible number of dead or dying grandparents, so they have lots of funerals to attend; you'd be an utter bully to say they couldn't go. They drink too much, party too hard, or have complicated personal lives, and then they turn up late for work. Or they don't turn up at all. Whatever happened to the work ethic? My personal favourite in the canon of extraordinary excuses for non-attendance is: "I fell asleep under a tree". Why? "Existential angst". Well, here's my existential boot up your behind.