The Employee who Never Complains Is the One You Are about to Lose

The player quit in June, but he had actually left in February.

He never said a word. Never missed a practice. Never caused a problem. He was the last guy on the bench, the one who did everything I asked and nothing I noticed. At the end of the season, he turned in his jersey, shook my hand and walked away from a team he had wanted to make since middle school.

I found out later that he had been struggling for months. I found out even later I was the only person who could have caught it, and I never once asked.

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