Bad Manners and Brimstone

It's been fine.
We sure noticed your absence.

This.

The charming young woman I nicknamed Eve (who was trying so hard to get me fired, she turned me into a pin cushion with her backstabbing) quit a few months ago for another job. She drops in periodically hoping to hear that she is missed.  Everyone says the same thing "It's SO quiet." 

My father used to recite a poem about questioning just how important you are to a business.  The idea was that whenever you start thinking you are more important than you are,  you should stick you hand into a bucket with water, then take it out.  The space left by your hand coming out of the water is how much you will be missed.  In other words, not at all.


UPDATE:

Found it--The Indispensable Man


The Indispensable Man

(by Saxon White Kessinger)

Sometime when you're feeling important;
Sometime when your ego 's in bloom;
Sometime when you take it for granted,
You're the best qualified in the room:
Sometime when you feel that your going,
Would leave an unfillable hole,
Just follow these simple instructions,
And see how they humble your soul. 

Take a bucket and fill it with water,
Put your hand in it up to the wrist,
Pull it out and the hole that's remaining,
Is a measure of how much you'll be missed.
You can splash all you wish when you enter,
You may stir up the water galore,
But stop, and you'll find that in no time,
It looks quite the same as before. 

The moral of this quaint example,
Is to do just the best that you can,
Be proud of yourself but remember,
There's no indispensable man.