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05-31-2008, 00:52
You know, it’s weird; Our site has over 100 women and only 12 men and in the 30 years it’s been operating here, there has only ever been one other jaw dropping fight. And that was resolved by both women deciding not to talk to each other about non-work related issues ever again. That stand-off has lasted nearly six years now, which is pretty amazing considering how closely they need to work. Being friends with both of them should have been hard, but they made it as easy as they could on everyone around. No bitching, no back-biting…it was kind of odd, actually. And sad. C was M’s maid of honour at her wedding. That's pretty much our company in a nut-shell. Mostly everyone is nice. Sorry, more than nice - mostly everyone is a friend. That goes way beyond just colleagues. Open invitations are given to the afters of weddings to the entire company. For relatives funerals there are sometimes arguments over who will be allowed go on the day. Aside from the actual job itself, I love working there. And its mainly because of the people. Never mind making work easier, they make life easier.
But back on subject. I don’t know if he will get his marching orders. In all the time the company’s been here only one person has ever gotten their marching orders (and that’s been verified by our union boss) and that’s because she lied in her medical and at her interview. Which was a pity, because she wasn’t actually a bad Little Pixie. One of the best I’ve had to work under. We've had quite a few pretty useless idiots in the place, who have done practically nothing but sweet-talked Editors so that their short-falls only ever came to life after they left.
I feel terrible saying this, but I really do wish he would go – either on his own or pushed. I don’t mind. He is a deceptively creepy little man. The kind of guy you see on the news after he’s gone crazy and walked into work with a shotgun. The one that ¾’s of the people interviewed after the event say ‘he was a nice, quiet man.’ And the other ¼ say that they always knew there was something weird about him. That kind of ‘creepy’. The ‘tread softly in case you upset him and he snaps’ creepy.
~A simple life is not living, and simply living is not life~
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