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[Alexandr Korol]

Chapter 10. Victory?

Well? I have overcome the demon. I do not know if he will return again or
manifest in someone else. That is a question. But the situation is such that the
employee began to behave badly again. And I was faced with a choice:
what to do? If I speak up about it now, it is quite possible he will get angry again,
lash out, meaning I should remain silent. But I understand that if I remain
silent, he will get even more out of control and drown in his egoism, self-love,
and so on. I very carefully write to the employee that he has again forgotten all
his promises. And in response, he snaps back again, but not in the way I
explained; he starts with that “bu-bu-bu” again, defending himself and shifting
the blame onto me. And I simply decided not to stand on ceremony and said:
“That’s it, we are done.” At first, the employee reacted negatively and started
behaving in such a way — just so long as he didn’t have to speak to the point, he
doesn’t want to raise the topic that he is at fault again, he doesn’t want to talk
about it. And he immediately starts distracting me and switching my attention
to some completely different, parallel stories and events from a hundred years
ago. I tell him: “That’s enough, this is already a final decision.” And I write to
him: “I know how you are going to behave, so there is no need to blame me. No
need to tell everyone later that I am bad and you are so good, that it was I who
fired you while you wanted to work. Don’t. You promised me everything again,
that you would behave well, but in the end, you do not keep your promises, and
that was your last chance. That’s it, that chance is over. So I’m sorry, we are
essentially no longer working together.” After which this employee, in a rage,
writes me a message — again, instead of apologizing or trying somehow to save
this job, no, he is in a rage again, in order to... It’s like this beast is playing
games, trying to taint me. And he cannot even allow the last word to be mine. He
still wants to throw something after me, in pursuit — well, that is often how
abnormal people behave. You know, even when they show hooligans in a fight, a
person might already be beaten in a street fight, but he will still say some nasty
thing after you until he is knocked out completely. Well, there are such people;
this demon sits within them. And this employee, following after me, writes
anyway and says: “Look, you have almost no employees left at all, think about
why, because no one is going to tolerate someone like you, and it is you who
are so bad,” that I am a dictator and so on and so forth. And what do I do?