Special Bonus post!

Tonight's extra evening post is inspired by yet another of Aesop's tales...

The Heifer and the Ox

A Heifer saw an Ox hard at work harnessed to a plow, and
tormented him with reflections on his unhappy fate in being
compelled to labor. Shortly afterwards, at the harvest festival,
the owner released the Ox from his yoke, but bound the Heifer
with cords and led him away to the altar to be slain in honor of
the occasion. The Ox saw what was being done, and said with a
smile to the Heifer: "For this you were allowed to live in
idleness, because you were presently to be sacrificed."

The usual moral: "He who laughs last, laughs best."

A slightly different take:
"If you aren't being given work to do, they might be keeping you around in case they need a sacrifice."

or for PhDs...
"Publish or perish"

Feel free to leave your own morals to these stories in comments.