[gray pierce]

Bangazazoom!

You don't fail your supervisor. In fact you do so well he or she promotes you to assistant supervisor. From there on you career starts skyrocketing towards the roof: supervisor, director, general director.

One day you have to make a business trip for the company to a far off country, an autocratic regime. Then as you're on your way to your bussiness meeting you get kidnapped by local insurgents. They demand a million dollar payment for your safe return. Unfortunately people at your company are only too happy to see you gone because now someone else can take your place so they don't pay up and since you don't have a family or your family has left you because you were far to busy with making a career for yourself to think about those trivial things, noone pays up and you are publicly beheaded.

I wish I didn't constantly feel the need to write depressing stories