> They're wondered why they weren't fired, when their prank had no negative side effects and the only issue was a department head being a dick about it? There

> They're wondered why they weren't fired, when their prank had no negative side effects and the only issue was a department head being a dick about it? There are plenty of companies where your boss being upset with you can lead to you being fired irrespective of whether it's logically justified. The author doesn't seem servile so much as green (which they admit and talk about quite a bit). > No need to warp your idea of what's right around what someone got mad at you about. Part of being an adult is the ability to mentally square how the world ought to be with how it actually is. It is perfectly reasonable to acknowledge that a decision you made wasn't optimal in retrospect even if it was the theoretically-correct one. This isn't "warping" anything as much as it is getting on with your life.