Avoid
Avoid verb - To get or keep away from (as a responsibility) through cleverness or trickery.
Clean up
Clean up verb - To make a place neat and orderly by removing extraneous stuff.
Both terms in one sentence
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Bad Boss: As Senior-Vice President of Securities Advertisement, Vasquez "promotes" Rhys to Assistant-Vice Janitor and socks him in the face just to add injury to insult (though Rhys can avoid the punch in the face if you agree to go clean up trash because Rhys has "done worse" in his career).
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