To add a layer to this fantastic metaphor? You don’t even have to go up to your boss and say “you’re a fucking idiot”. You can just go up and say ANYTHING your boss doesn’t like, even if it was totally correct and called for, and BAM! you can be fired.

Meanwhile, your boss can scream obscenities at you, steal from you, lie about you, make insults about you, enlist others in harassing you, give others things that belong to you, take tools or things you need to do your job, cut your pay, keep you from promotions you’ve earned, and give you an unfair workload and then yell at you for not keeping up with people who have a third of your work and twice the help in doing it. They can launch what would only be called a campaign of Fuck You Fucker against you. They don’t have to yell.

And SHIT ALL happens negatively to the boss. They just walk around smug and smiling, feeling like they’re a good person just for letting you walk in the door and if you should - after all this bullshit - give them an ugly look and say they’re being hateful they have the gall to gasp, purse clutch and say, “You wouldn’t like it if I called you hateful. No one should be called hateful. We’re all human! No one should get to call anyone hateful! Oh, BTW, YOU’RE FIRED GOOD LUCK FINDING WAYS TO SURVIVE NOW.”

TL;DR: Original metaphor is awesome. Don’t worry about my commentary if you don’t want.