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Office Drama

  Ethan glared at the employee before him. It wasn’t a unique sight in any way. He was used to the mixture of fear, awe and respect that he seemed to be able to inspire in his underlings. In his rather unbiased opinion, it helped contribute to a smooth working environment. Ethan’s employees may heavily disagree with him, but what do they know? He had a rather simple routine he liked to follow while ensuring his employees’ (ahem, minions’) absolute obedience to him. It really only had two steps, after which he left them alone for the day. Step one, of course, was to find some mistake they had made. Maybe they had put two sugars in his coffee instead of one. It didn’t particularly matter. Step two was to make their life miserable over it. This could be by either subtly threatening their job, or not-so-subtly hinting that they better improve, or else . It worked like a charm. The little minion would be trembling in fear, and he could walk away knowing his job was done. Or at least, it...