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How To Distract Your Boss on the Golf Course to Save Your Job

Playing golf with your boss can be a nerve racking experience. If you let her win, you’ll never hear the end of it. If you beat her, you may not get a promotion, preferred accounts or even get fired. Here are three tips on how to distract her from the game completely.

It’s a Parade

Hire clowns, jugglers, goth kids, Republican operatives, bank robbers, roaving musicians, cosplayers, Civil War reenactors and wild animals to walk across the fairway or green before every shot.

Give Advice

If she is new to the game, give her confusing sage golf advice like, “The best way to swing the golf club is back and through, back and through.”

Gossip Like Crazy

Now is the time to gossip with her about other people on the team. Talk about the lousy HR manager who watches TV all day, the buttinsky sales rep who likes to “stir the pot” for no reason, and the lazy senior manager whose last new idea was when they piped up in 2015 and said, “We have to go digital!”

Joe Ditzel

Joe Ditzel is a keynote speaker, humor writer, and really bad golfer. You can reach him via email at [email protected] as well as Twitter, Facebook, Google+ and LinkedIn.