# Farhat gets a high position, a large salary, a spacious apartment and the prospect of an enviable pension. A story

Henry de Overwood

MMMDCCXXXVI. Farhat gets a high position, a large salary, a spacious apartment and the prospect of an enviable pension. A story. - December 23, 2025.

Farhat gets a high position, a large salary, a spacious apartment and the prospect of an enviable pension. A story.


Intern-mining engineer Farhat sat at a meeting of the staff of the mining trust. He was listening to Danil Danilovich.


Danil Danilovich, the chief mining engineer, said everything correctly. Yes, they need to work properly!


After the senior management, the floor at the meeting was given to everyone else present.


"Maybe I should speak out, too," Farhat thought. But such case Farhat would not get the title of chief mining engineer, nor a spacious apartment, nor a large salary, nor a serious pension.


Farhat remembered his father's stories. They told Farhat's father, during his work: "Put your head down and work!"


And Farhat's uncle used to say, "Rams go behind the shepherd who leads them."


At the end of the meeting, the management announced that Danil Danilovich was being stripped of the title of chief mining engineer, evicted from the apartment, and sent to an unpleasant place for violating mine safety regulations.


Danil Danilovich stood up, looked at the participants of the meeting with odd eyes, and left the room.


And Farhat was invited, at first, to the personnel department, where he was asked to put his signature on the order appointing him to the position of chief mining engineer. They informed Farhat about his huge salary (they immediately gave him, in an envelope, the salary for the first month of work - as an advance payment). They showed him his pension plan - it will be a huge pension for Farhat.


Then Farhat was shown his new apartment, a huge spacious apartment with a beautiful view from the windows.


Farhat was rushing towards the entrance to the mine as if on wings. On the way, he met a funeral procession: for some reason, Danil Danilovich died.


Should Farhat take off his headdress? Or not to take it off? There are rules for those, who are working in a large team....


Farhat descends into the mine. His career begins. Now he is not the intern-mining engineer, but he is the chief mining engineer: with a huge salary, with a large apartment and with an excellent pension (in the future).


Farhat inspects the fasteners in the mine. Suddenly there is a crack noise.


The ceiling of the mine is collapsing on Farhat.


Farhat feels his bones breaking, his skull being crushed.


After a minute, Farhat sees himself, his body, as if from somewhere above. Farhat's body lies under pieces of rock that have fallen from the ceiling of the mine.


It's a terrible sight!


Farhat feels that someone is looking at him from behind.


Farhat turns around.


It's Danil Danilovich, a former chief mining engineer, looks at Farhat with a strange eyes. ...


December 23, 2025 05:54


Translation from Russian into English: December 23, 2025, 13:17

Владимир Владимирович Залесский ' Фархат получает высокую должность, большую зарплату, просторную квартиру и перспективу на завидную пенсию. Рассказ. '


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MMMDCCXXXVI. Farhat gets a high position, a large salary, a spacious apartment and the prospect of an enviable pension. A story. - December 23, 2025.


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