The Maintenance Protocol Revenge

"My boss fired me for being 'replaceable,' so I made sure he couldn't replace the one thing he

actually needed: his reputation." For five years, I was the ghost in the machine.

I wrote the scripts, I automated the billing, and I fixed the 'glitches' that

my boss, Dave, created every time he touched a keyboard. Dave was the kind

of guy who would steal a credit for a promotion and then ask you how to convert a PDF.

Last Friday, Dave called me into his office. He told me that due to 'restructuring,'

my position was being eliminated. He had the nerve to ask me to train his replacement—his

twenty-two-year-old nephew—before I left. I didn't get mad. I just smiled and