1.e.
So… The bull
was back, the bossman thought. This was
not good. Quite the opposite, in
fact. Bad, he told himself in case there
was any question. His ass puckered. Nothing pleasant ever followed an ass
pucker. He would have to end this
quickly.
The bossman
fingered the touchpad on his laptop, opened a chat window, and typed, <WTF?>
Though he
loathed instant messaging, which was the corporation’s preferred method of
communicating these days, he did enjoy a good abbreviated swear.
<what?> came the reply from username:
subordinate1.
<the gd bull and the mf china shop>
typed username: bossman.
<oh>
<yeah.
oh.>
<i’ll look into it>
That was
bullshit, subordinate1 already knew what was going on and the bossman knew it,
but since there had been no denial of knowledge a “bs” in the reply would seem
forced. Don’t bs me, perhaps? No, that wouldn’t do.
<you’ll tell me now> was the best he
could come up with.
<well, it seems that the budget cuts at the
hospital called for a reexamination of all patient care and an elimination of
extraneous treatments and since no one on the staff could recall exactly why
the bull was receiving daily dosages of ferdinandicil or what the medication
was exactly, they eliminated it from his drug regimen>
Many parts of
this reply pissed the bossman off. Most
of all was the use of the word extraneous.
<how could you let this happen?>
<not my department>
<what kind of bs answer is that?> The bossman smiled, pleased that he’d found a
way to work “bs” in after all.
<you know how this works, different divisions
work independently from each other and often arrive at contradictory policy
decisions, completely dicking over the other department>
Yes. He did know this. This was how corporate America
<what is your recommendation?> the bossman
typed.
<i think this is a deal breaker>
The bossman
gasped. They had worked on the
china-shop-bull project for nearly a decade now. Was it really time to step away and cut their
losses? But, were there, in fact, any
losses? He hesitated for a moment, and
then, positive in his decision and confident that there was no organic was to
work in another abbreviated swear, he simply typed <done>
