What would you do?: Mistaken Identity (Pt. 1)
Saturday, November 28th, 2009
Joe’s having a rough day, that’s about to turn into a rough week. Thanks to the bright ideas that his team leader insists on mass producing, those reports that were to be completed by the end of the quarter, a little over three weeks away, are now due before the end of the week for ‘review’.
Who the hell needs three weeks of review time anyways? An over-achieving, I-have-no-social-life loser is what Joe thinks. But clearly what he thinks is irrelevant since he’s gotten not one of those three promotions that were up for grabs earlier this year, losing them all to the same young spark with the ten thousand degrees and the latin, greek and chinese alphabet that strings along after his name… who just joined the company like when, yesterday?
Doesn’t investing 5 years of your divine given talent give you some kind of clout these days?, Joe fumes to himself. I mean you could win a friggin’ lifetime service award with that at some companies. Anyways, with so much knowledge, young spark should know that black socks, brown shoes and navy slacks isn’t where it’s at. Black is not the new navy bro’. Great. Now he has a boss who’s both younger than he is, and has no sense of style whatsoever. Freakin’ Fantastic.
Granted, he should have started those reports a while ago, but that’s not the point. He’s been distracted. His relationship has taken an extremely awkward turn, and he’s not quite sure what he’s supposed to make out of it.
As a man, clearly his pride has taken a hit, but he’s not too sure that it’s one of those ‘Take one for the team’ kind of hits. Things haven’t been so hot in his personal relationship bedroom lately and now this. He wonders if he’s doing something wrong.
Meanwhile, Sally’s in the Manager’s ladies room stall, on the phone with her loud mouth bff, trying to hold it together and not catch a case this bright and early Monday morning. Last night was NOT cute.
“OMG!!! Is he for real! Does he know who YOU are Sally?” Loud Mouth instigates.
” You can have any man you want, Hell, you don’t need to put up with that kind of BS. You too fabulous to put up with that ish!!! … I know a girl who had that happen to her and when she got to the bottom if it, homeboy was getting it in with her sister!” adds motor-mouth, who always knows somebody who has experienced something.
What would you do if while getting it in, your partner screams out a name that AIN’T yours?
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