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Conversations of the absurd

So, it happened again - I lost another office mate. However, this time its not near as much of a loss as it was before. This is mostly because I am so much more comfortable and competent in my job than I was before and because, well, he was pretty useless and didn't really do much anyway.

This wasn't entirely unexpected to me, however I didn't know *when* it would happen. This was pretty obvious when the following exchange took place yesterday afternoon, when my Manager comes into my shared office as we are just chilling out on a fairly laid back afternoon:

Paula: (coming up with something random to say) "So.....anything exciting going on?"
Mgr: (looks me square in the eye) "Nope".
Mgr: (looks at my office mate) "Can you come with me to (Op Mgr)'s office?"

He gets up to go and my mind starts racing, esp after hearing the click of the closing of the door that never closes unless its really important. I look at the clock, realize it is only 2:pmish on a Friday and I think, "Are they going to fire him? It's only 2:pm. Aren't they going to wait till 5:pm like before? I should get out of my office, because I don't want to be here if they *are* letting him go." I then take about 5 steps out of my office and another manager is en route to me and says, "You should go to my office right now." And I said, "Yeah, I was already heading...yeah."

So, a few minutes later I was told what I pretty much knew and the day carried on after the meetings of "Are you okay? We'll be helping you out, etc." - all of which was nice to hear, but at this point, somewhat unnecessary. But, basically, that was just a long way of me saying that clearly they didn't think letting him go was exciting. heh

And then later that day - having an im chat with the child duscussing something I am bringing home from work, I get this:

Paula: "Are you looking forward to the tortillas?"
Nate: "no"
Paula: "Why not? Tortillas are good."
Nate: "i ment to type yes".

Yep, that's what I thought he meant. ;)

Posted by thatothrgirl at August 13, 2005 08:29 AM