Was used by my last boss, Mister Scrooge. He paid my by personal cheque, rather pay the proper taxes. He would rant and rave over trivial things I did, because he was angry with a customer. He enjoyed telling me intimate details of his various love affairs (which I most assuredly didn't care to hear.) He underpaid me, and actually swindled me out of a bonus I was due.
I felt like one of those people who gets abused by their spouse, but still doesn't leave.
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~Theodore Roethke