Radical Ron mini-horror story : " A Seminar That Made A Difference "

A Seminar That Made A Difference After he got married and had a daughter and mortgaged a house and turned 30 and got fatter, Alfonse La Chance also got a lot more ambitious -and a lot less scrupulous. He was finally beginning to come up in the company and had a number of mentors who saw Alfonse as a younger, more idealistic version of themselves. Alfonse showed his respect for the work ethic by leaving the job early often only to take his nagging " material girl " wife shopping. " Anything her sweet heart desired, nothing was good enough for Debbie Dearest.", he thought to himself. Alfonse " work ethic " was only on paper- often 100 hours a week but always paid for by the company payroll. It was easy to balance the books: other blue collar workers- not on their way up - got cheated- many of them and often, a little here and a little there. One weekend -showing his dedication - Alfonse attended a seminar a managerial prerogatives . He learned how to fire shiftless employees without feeling any pangs of conscience. He read passages from " The Virtue of Selfishness" and " Looking out for number one ". When the company was suddenly sold - a complete surprise to Alfonse- he himself was fired . Not only fired but he now faced prosecution. His material girl Debbie Dearest kicked him out of the house . When I encountered him on a park bench, he was living with his elderly mother. I read the title of the book he was reading : " When Bad Things Happen to Good People ".