ProPLE who are quiet and meek round an office usually hold their jobs a long time but they don't usually get advanced very fast because the boss is apt to forget that they're round.
My Uncle Paddy was one of them kind of He had been workin' in an office for and years without gettin' an advance in and one day he finally mustered up enough courage to go in and ask the boss for a raise. He walked in so quietly the boss didn't hear him and kept on going, going through some papers on his desk.
Finally Uncle Paddy cleared his throat and the boss looked up with a start and says "Well, what do you want?" Uncle Paddy says "Sir, I have been here 25 years." The boss looked down at the floor where Uncle Paddy was standing' and says "So you must be the guy that wore that ugly hole in the carpetl"—by Re 3 Burns
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