Tagged: Work (581)

T 5090

I gave myself to her. But then my job took me far away. I learned to eat many exotic things. I met a new woman. I gave myself to her as well.

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T 5082

We were a bunch of people trying hard enough but not really too hard because we weren’t paid to try hard, just get the job done and go home.

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T 5066

She chokes on a fishbone and dies and the fisherman’s ocean collapses and he vows never to fish again. Then the next day he rows out to sea.

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T 5060

They used coded words like “camel” and “sheik” to speak of their illicit love while at work but then the firm won the contract in Abu Dhabi.

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T 5052

My therapist took out a smoke and I said, What are you doing? and he shrugged and then I stood up and he lay down and I took out a smoke too.

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T 5046

Your pants are too tight for your face, he tells her. The boardroom goes silent. He knows he’s lost his job. But this was the exit strategy.

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T 5031

He was late again and his wife said, Why? and he said, I was writing my blog, and she punched him so hard that he never wrote his blog again.

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T 5030

She caught his eye and he said, Let’s not do this, and she smiled a sad smile and shrugged and said, Let’s, and then she said, You’re fired.

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T 5026

He lost his dumb job. And he left the office and wandered around town in a morose daze. He walked into an unfamiliar bar. I’m lost, he said.

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T 5021

The security guard follows the noise to the bank’s vault. Inside it she finds the branch manager, naked. I’m just making a deposit, he says.

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