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* AnAesop:
** Be patient with your escort; they're doing the best they can.
** Even if a planned event goes horribly wrong, you can still make the best out of it and have fun anyway.



* AnAesop:
** Aggressive competition instead of friendly competition only leads to bitterness and frustration from both parties. It can also result in getting reckless in trying to one-up the other, which can hurt everyone and everything involved.
** It is best not to offer an Employee of the Month reward if it means your employees just turn on each other and use aggressive tactics that are unproductive if not even hazardous to your workplace, especially if said workplace only works with cooperation and teamwork's spirit.
** Don't take peoples' jokes seriously.
** Bosses can take away the lesson that it's not a good idea to encourage competition between employees in certain, if not all lines of work as it can create anxiety and fear in employees and lead to a much bigger problem.
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* GoneHorriblyRight: Mr. Krabs, at least according to Squidward, set up the Employee of the Month award to butter up his employees into working harder for no extra cost. He keeps [=Spongebob=] invested for a long tenure, even jokingly setting him against Squidward, though the result is both of them becoming incredibly paranoid and competitive, culminating in the two trying to manically outperform each other and wrecking the Krusty Krab in the process, the losses likely costing more than Krabs saved.

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* GoneHorriblyRight: Mr. Krabs, at least according to Squidward, set up the Employee of the Month award to butter up his employees into working harder for no extra cost. He keeps [=Spongebob=] [=SpongeBob=] invested for a long tenure, even jokingly setting him against Squidward, though the result is both of them becoming incredibly paranoid and competitive, culminating in the two trying to manically outperform each other and wrecking the Krusty Krab in the process, the losses likely costing more than Krabs saved.
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*AllForNothing: From what we see in the episode, neither [=SpongeBob=] nor Squidward won the award, meaning all their attempts to sabotage each other, right to when they start working at the Krusty Krab, was only a complete waste of time.
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* BigNo: Mr. Krabs lets one out when an overworking [=SpongeBob=] "cleans" the dishes he just destroyed with a mop.
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* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Squidward had absolutely no intentions of winning Employee of the Month, but [=SpongeBob=], paranoid that Squidward ''was'' out to get it, causes him to actually try to get it in his efforts to stop him, purely out of spite.

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* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Squidward telling [=SpongeBob=] to stop breaking his clocks causes [=SpongeBob=] to assume cocky superiority.
-->'''Squidward:''' You're a lunatic, [=SpongeBob=]!\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' Maybe so. But, I ''did'' win Employee of the Month ''26'' months in a row.\\
'''Squidward:''' A-Are you trying to say that you're better than me?!\\
'''[=SpongeBob=]:''' I've ''been'' better than you for 26 months! And it'll be 27, tomorrow.



** It is best not to offer an Employee of the Month reward if it means your employees just turn on each other and use aggressive tactics that are unproductive if not even hazardous to your workplace, especially if said workplace only works with cooperation and teamwork’s spirit.

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** It is best not to offer an Employee of the Month reward if it means your employees just turn on each other and use aggressive tactics that are unproductive if not even hazardous to your workplace, especially if said workplace only works with cooperation and teamwork’s teamwork's spirit.
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** It is best not to offer an Employee of the Month reward if it means your employees just turn on each other and use aggressive tactics that are unproductive if not even hazardous to your workplace.

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** It is best not to offer an Employee of the Month reward if it means your employees just turn on each other and use aggressive tactics that are unproductive if not even hazardous to your workplace.workplace, especially if said workplace only works with cooperation and teamwork’s spirit.
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* TruceTrickery: [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward fiercely compete for the titular award, repeatedly trying to sabotage each other's attempts to get to the Krusty Krab before it opens. After these tricks escalate to them dragging a shipwreck and an anchor tied to their backs, the pair decide to call a truce. However, each of them know that the other is lying, and they both quickly rush to the Krusty Krab as soon as they stop shaking hands.
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Squidward and [=SpongeBob=] compete over who will get the Employee of the Month award at the Krusty Krab.

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Squidward and [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward compete over who will get the Employee of the Month award at the Krusty Krab.Krab. But their competition soon begins to get out of hand. ''WAY'' out of hand.
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* PetTheDog: When Spongebob begins bawling over Pearl's near-bawl, she goes to comfort him, then they dance together and get kicked out.

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* PetTheDog: When Spongebob [=SpongeBob=] begins bawling over Pearl's near-bawl, she goes to comfort him, then they dance together and get kicked out.



* GoneHorriblyRight: Mr Krabs, at least according to Squidward, set up the Employee of the Month award to butter up his employees into working harder for no extra cost. He keeps [=Spongebob=] invested for a long tenure, even jokingly setting him against Squidward, though the result is both of them becoming incredibly paranoid and competitive, culminating in the two trying to manically outperform each other and wrecking the Krusty Krab in the process, the losses likely costing more than Krabs saved.

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* GoneHorriblyRight: Mr Mr. Krabs, at least according to Squidward, set up the Employee of the Month award to butter up his employees into working harder for no extra cost. He keeps [=Spongebob=] invested for a long tenure, even jokingly setting him against Squidward, though the result is both of them becoming incredibly paranoid and competitive, culminating in the two trying to manically outperform each other and wrecking the Krusty Krab in the process, the losses likely costing more than Krabs saved.



* LaserGuidedKarma: Mr. Krabs. Since it's him that gives the Employee of the Month awards, he ends up paying the price when Spongebob and Squidward become overly eager to win it.

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* LaserGuidedKarma: Mr. Krabs. Since it's him that gives the Employee of the Month awards, he ends up paying the price when Spongebob [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward become overly eager to win it.
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* MisplacedRetribution: While [=SpongeBob=] and Pearl ''were'' responsible for all the damage that had been done prior, they didn't destroy anything during "Doing the Sponge", with the damage being done by the other students trying and failing to do the Sponge. Despite this, it's what gets the two kicked out of the prom.

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