By Jessica Lussenhop
Joe Henry hated his boss so much, he would’ve preferred his old Army drill sergeant.
“A drill sergeant is consistently one way,” he says. “You know you’re going to get yelled at no matter what.”
Henry, a barrel-chested man with military posture, joined the Army at age 18 and deployed with one of the first battalions to enter Iraq in March 2003. He served a seven-month tour locating weapons caches and maintaining communications lines. A fellow vet remembers Henry as a reliable soldier — steady under the sound of constant gunfire.
For Henry, it turned out wartime was easier to handle than a job in satellite TV installation.
After he returned home, Henry began working as a manager for Dish Network. Six months into the job, his days began to start with the same strange ritual. He’d hit the alarm and lie there, wrestling with the urge to call in sick.
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