here today

 

At The Office

It's 9am. I'm on my sixth tea bag and finally see normal approaching. I started drinking tea instead of coffee so as to consume less caffeine. It's not working.

It takes me quite a few cups before I'm ready to face The Steel Trap. I sit outside his office with my back to the big window and for the first few hours I like to pretend that he's not there.

The Steel Trap remembers everything. This fact sometimes makes things tricky for us. Because I make sure that no space in my brain is taken up with insurance information. So I often do something for him and then immediately wipe that action from my memory. Which leads us to a conversation like this:

Steel Trap: "Remember the meeting that I had with the Alberooozans in March?"

Me: "No."

Steel Trap: "I believe you set it up. And then created a black binder and then a client binder. And then called to remind them. And then sent out a follow-up letter detailing the work we did."

Me. "Hmmm. That sounds right."

Steel Trap: "So, you remember?"

Me. "No. But it sounds like the kind of work I do here."

Steel Trap: "Could you just check your notes and get back to me?"

Me: "Good idea"

The Steel Trap walks away shaking his head in disgust? But secretly he gets high from the fact that he's the only one really on top of things here. TST is an Aries and he's my age and he makes ten times the money that I make. He loves all of those facts, too.

I hate my job.

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