It Doesn’t Always Pay To Boast Your Game

by Clare Briggs · August 11, 2019

Clare Briggs

Clare Briggs is a famous cartoonist who lived from 1875 to 1930. Poems by Wilbur Nesbitt.

Kolohe says:

August 13, 2019 at 8:48 am

This is just bad intelligence work. If you’re gonna be brownnosing the boss, you gotta know his skill and comfort level.Report

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