If the most critical piece of advice given to most job seekers is to never speak ill of prior employers, Howard takes it a step further, donning an MTA uniform as he throws colleagues under the bus, driving over them and sheepishly looking back, muttering, "Oops!" Howard: "I felt like my role was being reduced.
With the prospect of decades-long prison terms and witnesses willing to throw former colleagues under the bus in exchange for a reward doled out by prosecutors, there's little wonder that federal criminal trials have become rarities; a guilty plea may appear to be even an innocent defendant's best option.
I am loathe to enter into a discussion where the subtext is that I ought to justify myself by throwing my colleagues working in different ways under the bus, and where my job is assumed to be bad until I prove otherwise.
I've heard beautiful tales of friendship, but also story after story of quiet and not-so-quiet cruelty -- everything from women bad-mouthing their own friends and throwing female colleagues under the bus, to mothers harassing their daughters' peers, to the usual gossip, critiques, and put-downs so many of us wield out of habit, sport, boredom, or bonding ritual.
His diary entries see him feeling for a middle way, fretting when his Whig colleagues throw themselves modishly into the arms of Manchester merchants, yet contemptuous when small-minded Tory squires, led by the Duke of Wellington, huff and puff about the rivers of blood that will surely follow.
The Bar Standards Board should require the advocate, civil or criminal, to attend such courses at regular and frequent intervals, and participate in discussions and exercises, and watch how their colleagues throw off the bad habits acquired as they grow older but no wiser in the performance of their advocacy.
Back in Oslo, his colleagues throw him a farewell party, but Odda timid manis uncomfortable with the attention.
The quarterback Sage Rosenfels dropped back to pass, readied his throw — and my colleague Bobby Worth walked into the room to ask about Saddam Hussein, then on trial for war crimes.
These days, a congressman's colleagues will throw him overboard in a second.
He was ready for all that our old friends and colleagues could throw at us.
