A guy who eventually became a senior VP at the large utility company I worked at once made up an org chart with him in it with a fake promotion. He left it in the copy machine. After the buzz went around that he was an up-and-comer, he actually got a promotion. Many people attributed his early success to the fake org chart.

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Many people attributed his early success to the fake org chart.

Or maybe he's a precog.

Man, sometimes I wish I were an evil genius.

Many people attributed his early success to the fake org chart.

Or maybe he's a precog.

Maybe he got promoted *because* he's a precog.

Maybe he got promoted *because* he's a precog.

Well if he was a precog and stated that he was going to get a promotion, the management would have to promote him or risk a temporal disruption that would result in a subspace rift and would destroy the entire planet.

He got the promotions because he was as devious as hell. He was also one of those people with a freaky talent for remembering names. He could recognize at least a third of the 12,000 people in the company, and usually remembered what they did and some other personal detail about them.

"You've got to know your Shakespeare, but...if you do, collect these texts and you can just playfully kick butt the way wizards do."

Brush up your Shakespeare;
Start quoting him now.
Brush up your Shakespeare;
And the geeks will all kowtow.

He got the promotions because he was as devious as hell.

Well okay, I suppose that's an alternative to the precog theory.

I so love the idea of a Shakespeare world.

I would have been here at 8AM had my battery not died, necessitating calling roadside assistance for a jump, and then sitting at NTB for an hour and a half while they replaced the battery.

Clearly you're still paying for all the gelato and lovely scenery.

I woke up late and had to scramble to make the bus, and now I'm finding all the ways humans and software can misspell "usury."