Demoted and...

"No, I'd really just like to touch base with everyone. I may organize a manager's meeting but I'd really like to sit down with each of you. No, thank you!" She hung up her phone. It was evident that she was taking her new position seriously. "Alright, Tim," she said, directing her attention at me. "If you didn't hear that, I'm going to be sitting down with each of the managers and getting a little run-down of what goes on here. Go set up your desk and then make me an organizational chart so I know who does what around here."

For the rest of the day I complied with Carrie's request to send in manager after manager and even her request for a chicken salad sub from Gordie's Deli. Gary the sales manager, Phillip the production manager, Alan the shipping guy... She'd just about made her way through the entire organization by 5:00. The only one left was Jeremy the warehouse supervisor. I paged him in at just before five o clock when his worker bees were all leaving for the day. As soon as he entered Carrie's office, he dropped the blinds and within minutes I could hear the familiar sound of the big wooden desk trying to scoot across the tile floor. The sounds of flesh on flesh, Carrie's screams of ecstasy, and knowing she was obviously enjoying being railed by another man were too much for me to bear and I grabbed the keys to the Honda and made my way out the door.

"She was going to watch every move I made?" I asked myself as I sat waiting for a break in traffic to let me get away from this god-awful building. It was starting to sound like she was going to make me watch every move she made as she slowly brought down my life. Why did I care so much that Carrie was fucking Jeremy on the desk that I'd fucked Andrea on? Turn-about's fair play, I suppose, but revenge is a mother fucker.

I thought that maybe I'd found the first thing that scotch couldn't cure but that wasn't going to stop me from trying. It was a crisp night but I sat at the patio table with an ashtray and a rocks glass with more than enough cigarettes and scotch to fill both plenty of times over.