The meeting turns on a word. The CFO says, We need more profit. His underling says, I’d profit from a burger. The loner says, I’m a prophet.
Tagged: Work (581)
T 5284
They fell in love. But when she said she wanted kids he returned to school, became an astronaut and volunteered for a manned mission to Mars.
T 5283
He watches her eat her burger. The joy she exhibits. The lust with which she attacks it. He tells her he loves her. She doesn’t leave a tip.
T 5282
He never washes and he manhandles the popcorn at work and his boss says, I know what your wife tastes like, and he says, But I’m not married.
T 5280
He clears his in-box and she says, Did you get my note? and he says, No, and she says, But I left it in your in-box, and her life is ruined.
T 5277
The new CEO and his out-of-the-box thinking. He asks his senior managers to draw him a picture of love. Jones draws a cheeseburger. He wins.
T 5255
The mascot takes off its head. Underneath the cartoonish lizard exterior lives a sensitive soul. A youngster pricks him. And he bleeds green.
T 5253
He’d gone into ornithology for this moment. This reason. All the schooling. He leans in close. You’re quite a bird, he whispers into her ear.
T 5242
She hit reply-all on the email, and next day at work her desk is covered in bananas. She buys a blender. Smoothies for everyone, she tweets.
T 5223
A hurtful remark. And pushing. And then much later, a career inspired by past humiliations. And finally, he becomes the leader of everything.
