Crowley, life-long pawn, might have advised not to get ahead of oneself

"Yeah, bumped into him a little bit ago. He's having a look-around."

Hopefully he didn't spend too long with the buffet. "I'm just. Watching the work dynamic here with the employees. See what's what."

And what he could exploit. He was very good at tempting beleaguered workers into getting their due. It helped that he could sympathize.