Shifting people from job to job for personal reasons is called manipulation. I could do it now because Milton had arranged it. I wasn't supposed to do it for anyone but him, though.
1. To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when
knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand
work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.
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2. To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate
a convention of delegates; also, to manage artfully or
fraudulently; as, to manipulate accounts, or election
returns; to manipulate the stock market.
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