You can't fix arrogance

So Rizzo the Rat is exactly that... a dirty, sneaky, evil rat.
It's all about how he can use other people to make himself look better, look more important, look like he has a clue what he's doing.

He doesn't. He just wants to look that way.

In the "Hierarchy of Pompous Asses" that lurk in the shadows, skulking around to make life for all at the Muppet Daily News as difficult as possible, Rizzo is an underling. He likes to think of himself as "The Hatchet Man."

I like to think of him as he is... a clueless, pompous rat. The kind even other rats don't like because he makes them look bad.

So today Rizzo threw me under the proverbial Rat-bus. Something I had taken to him back in December, he was going to follow up on and didn't. Now, when the rat-crap starts hitting the fan, he feigns Rat-amnesia and puts it all back on me.

Why?
Because he's a rat. Always will be.

And today, I got a royal nasty butt-chewing by the evil bean-counter.
The one that sits even closer to the right hand of "Oz" than Rizzo.
(think of an ungodly person, with a god-complex ... a cross between Scrooge McDuck ... if that was a Muppet ... and Ebenizer Scrooge ... that's our Oz.)

So I got the butt-chewing from the bean counter (Oooh, pardon me, VICE PRESIDENT OF BEAN COUNTING), for something that was Rizzo's screw up.
And I let it happen.
Why?  Not out of the goodness of my heart. Where Rizzo and VPofBeans is concerned, I don't have a heart.
But because, if I told VPoB the truth, he'd go back to Rizzo. Rizzo would deny everything.
Then I'd be on the VPoB's schnitzel list AND in the crosshairs of Rizzo.
So I fell on my muppet-sword, took the hit, whatever you want to call it.

It was difficult to do.
Infuriating, actually.
But it was probably the wisest decision.
The lesser of two evils, when dealing with evils.
And those two are.

Still waiting to see the backlash, once the drama-level fades from the VPoB.
Who knows.
And through it all, trying to keep it quiet... not because it's such an issue.
Just trying to keep Pepe the King Prawn out of it.
Because Pepe is so far up Rizzo's butt, he can see his tonsils the hard way.
Pepe wants to grow up to be Rizzo.
Proving what an idiot prawn he really is.

What I really need is the patience to ride it out, a schnitzel-deflecting machine, and a winning lottery ticket, so I can walk away from this idiocy.