Promotion Time
July 15th 2010 21:00
Recently a couple of vacancies came up in my team. We were waiting for the new manager to be announced when I told my cat-loving colleague, “The new manager has been announced: It is Butterscotch.”
“Great,” he said unenthusiastically.
“Butterscotch has good people skills. He knows how to lead a team. He has a wealth of experience.”
“Great,” chimed my colleague.
“He has been watching us already. Who else says, ‘Get back to work! All of you! Get back to work!’” A pause. “And Gingersnap will be the new team leader.”
On another day after we had been doing many hours of overtime, I said to him, “Butterscotch has noticed you have been working hard.”
“Am working hard,” he corrected. “Present tense.”
“He is planning to give you a bonus: A thousand tins of Whiskas.”
“Great,” he said in the same flat voice.
That reminds me of the time I used to joke with an ex-colleague about working for Butterscotch: “Pre-requisites for a job here include having a degree, experience in finance and reconciliations and must be able to work with cats. The last pre-requisite is the most important one as many people can’t handle taking orders from a cat.”
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