I was not clear on what the company did
when I got the interview
which might have been the point of their vague name.

I got the job
and soon learned
their name hid their insidious designs.
I worked for an evil company in the telecom sector.

The money was the best I’d made, though,
so I worked hard
and was proud of how I did.

I was not proud of the company.
They probably weren’t either
and changed their name.

Their profits rose.
The phone companies tried to rein them in
but not hard
because everyone profited from their actions.

I did well there.
I rose.
I talked shit.
I got canned.

I stopped caring
about the work I did
and started to keep my head down
just to do my job.
I stopped speaking ill of my employer
whatever they did.
I still get fired.

There’s probably a lesson there:
Evil’s gonna evil to the world
whatever you do about it.
Evil’s gonna evil to you, too.