Joel and his "22 years"

This actually a great story. I was able to put a few laws to use in this one. At the time I was working at a carwash. A carwash  is a great place to practice the laws of power in that it is structured very much like a court if you think about it. The boss being the king his receptionist being the queen and the employees’ are the swamp of courtiers who are there for the sole purpose of  serving the master. Treachery, deception and manipulation are inevitable in such a work environment. Everyone is out to outshine the next man so you constantly have to be on your toes. Moving along, this story is a bout a very arrogant man who was recently hired named Joel. Joel probably didn’t wipe his ass without telling himself how much experience he had in doing it. Everything was "I know what at I am talking about I’ve been doing this for 22 years". You couldn’t do anything around this guy with out him trying to correct you and asserting his 22 years of experience into the matter. One day i decide enough was enough. It was time to shut him up once and for good. Joel became my new target. The first law I put to use was the 8th law “Make others come to you, use bait if necessary“. It was time to set the trap. I told Joel I would sell a headlight restoration so that he could make some money. I chose headlight restoration because its something that I am very good at. It was my way of bring him in to my ring. I told my boss that I wanted Joel to do a headlight restoration because with his twenty two years of experience I could watch and learn something from him. Being eager to learn I expressed my enthusiasm and sure enough my boss sells a headlight restoration and Joel get his time to "shine". Joel does the headlight restoration and about 40 minutes later of his 22 years of experience it looks like shit. He plea’s the case that the lights were too old and nothing more could be done. At this point the situation could have went many ways. I could  have chosen to argue with Joel  that his work sucked which only would of lead to him arguing back and pleading that nothing more could be done. I could of actually jumped in and helped him which only would of lead to him taking credit for my work. Instead I told him that they looked better than when they got there. After  all the car was ten years old and the customer surly couldn’t expect new head lights. He turned the car in and the customer was very unhappy. So was my boss. My boss comes to me an demands that I  go over the work and make the headlights look better. And that’s exactly what I did. In ten minutes I was able make the headlights look a lot better, the customer left happy, I got the tip and the commission for the job. I came to Joel in a subtle manner and told Joel that it was not his fault. The headlights were bad and it was a tough job. Though I only had one year of experience not to let his pride get in the way of asking for help. I am always around and I am always more than happy to give a helping hand. Joel never did a another detail and never again mentioned anything about his twenty two years of experience. At the very end I took credit for his work which is the 7th law of power "Get others to do the work, but always take the credit” . Joel in fact did most work, all I had to do was finish it, which he hadn’t. It was all done in a non competitive manner. I appeared genuine  about wanting to learn from him. A major part of my deception was  to conceal my intentions which is the 3rd law. Over all I practiced the 9th law of power "win through your actions never through argument” . I knew from the beginning that Joel was full of it but to argue would have only made me look insecure, also a proud man like this you don’t want to attack directly regardless of position. I had to demonstrate no explicate. All of my moves were very calculated.