The narrator describes their daily routine as an ordinary secretary for a hot-tempered and demanding boss. To cope, the narrator imagines themselves as a rich and influential person being served instead. This helps the narrator remain cheerful even while carrying out numerous duties and orders. Though their boss continues to treat them poorly at times, the narrator's change in attitude has improved their relationship and made them both satisfied with the current work situation.

2. I am a very rich and influential man. Many people
serve me. Let me describe one usual morning of my
life.
I wake up at 11 o’clock. One servant is combing my hair
(he is a comber of my hair), while the other is giving
my slippers (he is my assistant of carrying things).
Besides these two servants, I also have a personal cook,
pastry-cook, cleaner, laundress, caretaker and butler.
It is a pity, but all these people are rather boring and
gloomy. They are always troublesome, because they
have to carry out my numerous orders. However, I need
to have an amusing company. That’s why I have taken
on a personal fool. He is forced to cheer me.

3. If you think that I’m a character of the
book devoted to the last centuries, you are
not right. I live in our modern world, but it
is all about me in my heart and soul. That
is how I imagine my own person.
However, there is another image of me in
other people’s eyes.

4. I’m an ordinary secretary in a small company. I get up
early in the morning and run at work. I’m afraid of being
late, as my boss is very hot-tempered and angry. He often
makes mountains out of mole-hills.
If I add more sugar in his tea than he likes, he will spit in
the cup and won’t drink it. If I don’t sweep the floor, he
will throw the broom at me. If I miss a call, he will
threaten to kill me.
What is more, it was a time when my boss was not
satisfied with my look. He said that I was rather boring
and gloomy. There was no denying the truth. I was always
troublesome, because I had to carry out his numerous
orders.

5. However, my boss was in need of an amusing
company. That’s why he loaded me with a new duty.
In spite of the fact that I have already been his own
cook, pastry-cook, cleaner, laundress, caretaker and
butler, now I am also his personal fool in addition
to all other my duties. I am forced to cheer my
lovely boss.

6. It was a day when I wanted to get my discharge,
but my boss said to me, “I will find you
everywhere”.
At first, I felt myself as a bullying victim. So
one day I turned for help of a psychologist, and
he advised me to abstract of my problems. He
instructed me, “If you can’t change the
situation, change you own attitude to it”.

7. I thought that I couldn’t vanish from the face of the
earth, thus, I created my own imaginary world where I
am a very rich and influential men. Every time when I
do my duty, I fancy this situation in the other way
round as if my boss served me. I am much kinder than
my boss, so I imagine that many people serve me, but
not one unfortunate man (who is my boss).
Owing to my fertile imagination, I am not gloomy any
more. That’s why each time when I help my boss on
with his coat or serve the dinner for him, a great joy is
written all over my face. At first, my boss was really
astonished at so essential changes with my person, but
he soon got used to my brightness in the eyes and
happy, even slightly stupid smile.

8. Now both I and my boss are satisfied with
our relationship.
From time to time he likes to repeat his
favorite phrase: “I haven’t miscalculated
when I made you be my personal fool!”