I enjoy this quote from one of my favorite authors, Rex Stout, in "The Mother Hunt" in which Archie is describing his relationship with his boss. This could double for my employer and me.
"I could list five good reasons why I shold have quit that job long ago, but I could list six, equally good, why I shouldn't and haven't. Turning it around, I could list two reasons, maybe three, why Wolfe doesn't fire me, and ten why he shouldn't and doesn't. Of the ten, the big one is that if I wasn't around he might be sleeping under bridges and eating scraps. He hates to work. It has never been said right out, by either of us, that at least half my salary is for poking him, but it doesn't have to be."
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