tempered. I make friends with Keith and scorn Don. After about nine months, Keith leaves and Don is put in charge of the IT department. I don't last very long after that. I'm let go almost exactly a year after I began. It's a painful lesson, but this was my fault. For the last several months I've been coasting. New work came in, and I let other people have it. I maintained a small number of reports and never sought out new responsibilities. Perhaps I was still infected with the school mentality of doing the minimal work needed to "pass". Don was looking for an excuse to get rid of me, but he
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