These Pointless Persecutors

There is a story of a young man who apparently was not experienced about the ways of men. He was a personal assistant to a highly placed official in his of work. It was this official who employees or ensured that he was the one employed to occupy that position in his fairly exalted office in the establishment, Over the years they became so close that many things he did as PA, his boss never had any idea of how to do them on his own.