Truth 12Watch the Pontificator!

At the offices of one of my clients was a fellow I'll call "Moe." Moe was your typical pontificator. Whenever we saw Moe, he was standing outside someone's cubicle or sitting in someone's office, coffee cup in hand, waxing poetic about the latest dumb decision management made, the idiots who run his division, or last night's baseball game. Moe had an opinion on everything and was very free about letting you know every detail of his opinion. There was no such thing as a 5-minute conversation with Moe. Unless you excused yourself for whatever reason, you were there for at least 15 minutes listening to his philosophy. The problem was that Moe was friends with the person managing our contract, so we had to put up ...

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