Jadis, the white witch who cast a wintry spell in Narnia all year long, has also erased the merry days of Christmas under her dominion.In a quiet office suite where i work, an omnipresent superior equates hardwork with the long incommunicable silence, assuming one is busy, in the work station. She has a very practical definition of socializing, very communistic if you ask me, which is one has to discuss work-related topics only during work hours; and her concept of time is truly and utterly perceptual, which is flat and entrepeneurial at its strictest.
How the warmth, bravery and good intention awakened the gloom of Narnia and eventually toppled the cold and unfeeling witch is said to be true in the story. My attempt to spread laughter by talking to my spell-bindingly scared officemates and my invitation to my boss to share lunch with us has both been turned down and taken as "unproductive" on my part. So much for fiction emulating reality, or the other way around.
As a result of my cheery attitude, i think i may have lost an alternative source of income. For although i'm not sure, i have reason to believe, knowing, of course, how my boss operates in the past, that she may have concocted a deliberate scheme to kick me off from her none-servile pawns.
I'm kind-a pissed at the moment but not bitter, and at the same time relieved that i may or will never step on that land where they never celebrate Christmas.
5 comments:
God, what an enlightened boss!
Are you actually shackled to the desk and forced to wear a gag using prime working hours?
Flight is your only option.
Floreat!
I like the metaphor you've used here ... sad that the witch doesn't see the beauty and value of warmth ... she will forever be trapped in the frigidity of her icy soul.
Keep your cheer & find a place where it will be embraced!
Peace,
JP/deb
I always thought the White Witch was very sexy. But I wouldn't like to work for her.
Blinkers are of course the answer. Has she not thought of those? Or why doesn't she go back to the old idea of shutting everyone in little office capsules by themselves with no phones or computers, just a quill and a bit of paper.
You need a new job. Life is too short to be treated like that - but good for you for trying to breathe life into the place.
You write beautifully by the way - lovely!
Hilarious!
She sounds detrimental to your mental health though - or a psychic vampire of some unhealthy sort.
Do you feel drained as you leave perchance? (a sure sign)
Best off to find a new second income methinks.
This boss of mine used to be a sexy and fun witch, but along the way, she changed into a different being overnight. I wouldn't say that i have changed for the worse because i have always been sociable to everybody in the office, including my boss, and i like to think that i have been a fair hardworking employee as well. My boss' issue may have to do with his self-inflicted punishment to expect his pawns to be like the robotic being that she is, gagged and shackled at her desk.
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