SECRET SMILE

listening to... the hum of the computer…

The waning moon glowed gold and large in the clear night sky as I drove 580 eastward bound toward home. The air was cool, the stars bright. I wished I could feel a hint of spring, but I know it was all in my head…

EIGHT EIGHT SEVEN SEVEN

He’s tall, she thought. And what is that secret smile of his? He has that mischievous glint in his dark eyes and an amused curve to his lips. He has a secret. She wonders what it is…

ON A LIST

I’m in a “I hate work” mood right now. Why can’t TIIC just leave us alone? Why can’t they acknowledge our hard work and let us continue along?

I’m on a list. A “this person takes too much sick leave so we must move this person” list. As if they can just put anyone into any of the jobs in the office. As if they even know what the hell we do in the office!

Here’s the thing, I am not on sick leave review. At least, no one has told me I am. No one said to me last week, when I called in sick, that I needed a doctor’s note because I was calling in sick. So how in the name of all that is fair can they justify moving me out for abuse of sick leave? Don’t I need warning that I’m supposedly doing something wrong? Shouldn’t someone call me into their office and verbally warn me? And then, if I fail to heed the verbal warning, shouldn’t someone write me up and have me sign the reprimand? Is that not the way it is done? Or is the department special and above all of that?

Husband thinks they’re not really going to do anything. A part of me believes this. It just seems like too much effort on their part to disrupt the operation of the office in such a way.

Yet I am still disheartened. If even some of this is true, it’s sad. It means that no matter how hard I work each day and every hour, no matter how pleasant I am, no matter how self sufficient I am, no matter how good I do on evaluations, it’s all for naught. If they need to send me on my way, they will come up with any reason to do so.

And it just makes me want to say F–K YOU!!! Stick it way up your f–king a$$. You are all a bunch of egotistical, brown nosing, a$$ licking f–kheads with sh-t for brains.

Yeah, like that…