“At thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore” (Ps. 16: 11)
Growing Dominion, Part 154
“As snow in summer, and as rain in harvest, so honour is not seemly for a fool” (Prov. 26:1).
Sometimes tenderhearted employers try to steer wayward or deficient employees by means of false praise. They render praise in the hopes that the employee will be encouraged by it, and will somehow (mysteriously) grow up into it. There is a sense in which this does happen when you are bringing up children, but at some point even a child is known by his actions, whether he is being good or not.
When an employee wins awards he does not deserve, or gets credit he ought not, or is given coveted assignments that he should not receive, it is like snow in August, and all the other employees look at each other with that expression that they reserve for . . . snow in August.