Posts Tagged ‘office’

Past Office Hour

Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

Two men do overtime, then each other.

“It’s gorgeous!” said Samuel. “Great work!”
He put his arm around Adam’s shoulders, and squeezed them. When he removed his arm, his hand accidentally slid down Adam’s back. Adam stopped smiling, and Samuel quickly took one step back, bent over the drawings on the table, and started commenting their qualities frenetically. Adam stepped up close to him, rested one elbow against Samuel’s shoulder, and watched him, amused. His hair stroke a lock of Samuel’s hair away from Samuel’s neck. He leaned forward and pressed his lips against Samuel’s hot skin. Samuel interrupted himself mid-sentence. He turned his head and looked at Adam, who leaned in, and kissed him gently. Samuel felt the hair on his arms stand up, and his legs suddenly felt as if there wasn’t any bones in them. They stood up straight, looking at each other. Adam kissed him again, this time with tongue, and without Samuel noticing just when and how they got there, they were soon sitting on the couch, with their arms around each other. Their hands slid over each others’ bodies, slow, eager, curious. They never stopped kissing. Not until Adam unbuttoned Samuel’s shirt and stuck his hand in under it, touching Samuel’s hairy chest, did Samuel pull back.

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Office Space

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

Boss grooms new employee to be his personal sex slave.

All I had to do was make it three more hours. My boss stands in front of us chanting “blah, blah, blah” at me and about twenty other co-workers, pointing a metal rod at some graph that makes absolutely no sense to me right now. This will be the third day I’ve had no sleep. I’m dizzy, starving, bored and beginning to hallucinate. The white walls begin to warp and twist into humanesque faces. My boss’ height begins altering slightly. The boardroom seats start becoming carnivorous, noshing slowly on my butt cheeks. I giggle aloud for no reason, and it takes me a few moments to realize that my boss has ceased talking and now everyone is looking at me.
“Mr. Yan, take a few minutes and get some coffee from the front desk, hum?” My boss states in a near-monotone voice, folding the rod up and placing it down on the large oak conference table.
“Uh? Oh, sorry, Mr. Willard, I’m afraid I’m rather ill today.” I wanted him to tell me to go home early, but with my boss, that was like asking the U.S. Government to give Saddam Hussein a tactical nuke for his birthday.

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No Gold Watch

Monday, December 10th, 2007

Carl gets a surprise on his last day at the office.

While rummaging through my increasingly empty desk, I found a hand mirror. Odd how things get in there…not as odd as when I found a 4 Non Blondes CD wedged in a corner, but still strange. The mirror reflected a man I had known all my life, yet still felt alien to. The boyish good looks and sparkling blue eyes had grown hooded and slightly craggy. The broad shoulders, soaring pectorals and tiny waist had filled out to a functional, strong, but increasingly bulky frame. The wavy blonde hair had thinned considerably. I was 45. I was tired. And I was fired.
“Laid off” was the more official term. Either way, I’d been with this advertising firm since I was fresh out of grad school, had given them my youth, my time, my good will, my blood, and probably millions of dollars. They weren’t even going to give me a gold watch. With all of the other department cuts, I knew I wasn’t alone, and that I should probably be grateful to have hung on as long as I did, but being kicked in the teeth hurts no matter how delayed the connection with the boot is.
At least I didn’t have any kids. All I had was Trevor, my partner of 12 years, and he fortunately had a successful business of his own. Maybe he could give me a job…
My downbeat thoughts were interrupted by a loud knock on the door.
“It’s OK,” I muttered, throwing a few more trinkets in a cardboard box as my
coworker entered the room. “Your loss, Michael, you get stuck with helping me carry this shit to my car.”

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