"If I work hard enough my boss will notice"

The ancestors of the modern pickme

Banger quote, has an air of antiquity about it

Reminds me of the book I read to my kid.

Farmer Duck

Literally about the farm animals kicking the lazy farmer out that makes the duck do all the work. Highly recommendes if you have a little kid.

Depends on what is defined as "success". If it's somewhere within "owning as much wealth as possible", then yeah.

Instead, the ass does

I wouldn't want the hardest worker to be the automatic promotion. We've all worked with someone who means well, works hard but is dumb as a brick. God help us if they get promoted.

Edit: Okay, I guess I'm the only one who has ever been managed by a hard working, well meaning idiot?

Unfair comparison

Is that why a lot of business owners are jackasses?

The only way to get rich- marry money; win the lottery, be born with it; or learn how to ruthlessly exploit your fellow man

Napoleon is always right

I can only hear the tense mismatch

There are 5 bootlickers among us.

Or you know, the farmers.