Socks to be you

An uncle once advised me to keep a sock in my desk drawer to discourage managers from allocating stressful tasks 

My friend Ted has a good bit of advice to add to this: 

It's even better if you take off both socks and hand them over one at a time. For an encore you can get another sock worn the previous week out of your pocket and hand them that as well. Nobody knows what to do with that third sock.