Originally Posted by
LadyOfWar
[Somewhere on a Path]
Wes smiles, and launches into her tale as they walk along.
“True story here.” She’s pretty firm about that. “My family had just moved to this new town and I wanted a job. So this guy named Bob Valentine that my dad knew… yes, Valentine, I couldn’t make this stuff up, … he offers me a job at his company answering phones. It was really decent of him, especially because I didn’t have much work experience. So I’m working away at this job for about three months and I start to feel like I’m going to go insane! if I have to sit inside for one more day and answer one more stinking phone call just to hear some customer complaining. See, Ashtrek, I’m a woman of action. I can’t live cooped up in a cubicle all day.”
She motions to her own appearance, and she certainly does not look like she’d do well under fluorescent lights for any length of time. Her tanned skin needs sun, her sturdy mud-covered boots need more dirt to tromp though and her cammo jacket needs a natural back-drop to blend in to.
“I started snapping at the customers.” She looks ashamed of that. “So Bob comes over to my desk one day and tells me he’s really sorry but I need to find another job. I was FURIOUS. I was doing my best, I just couldn’t handle dealing with one more whiny customer. So… long story short, I got another job, working for a landscaping place. I got to make deliveries to their work sites and work in the greenhouse, it was a great job. Bob even wrote me a letter of recommendation that helped me land it. So… getting fired for me was a sign I needed to find another line of work. I’ve never worked in a cubicle since.”
She finally shuts up.
Then adds… “Oh, as for the staring contest part, Bob later ended up working at my dad’s company and one year at the Christmas party we all were challenging each other to stupid contests. I beat Linda from accounting in the first round and then Bob beat me in the second round when Linda stuck a pair of those silly light-up antlers on Bob’s head in the middle of the competition and it made me laugh.”