Tagged: Work (581)

Twister 1157

He takes a pencil and jams it into his hand and he calls HR and says he’s been stabbed. But not in the back, he says, because I can’t reach.

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Twister 1283

The butcher wears an ascot. During the novocaine of winter, he is tasked with making dead things delicious. “Funkytown” plays on the stereo.

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Twister 1454

She walks into the office and smells that thing again. She bumps into her boss and he smiles and says I smell it too. It’s the smell of fear

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Twister 1557

Jim’s tie is askance. His pants are around his ankles. And his colleague’s eyebrows are raised. Don’t come in, Jim says. I ate a bad burrito

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Twister 1703

In the shower that morning, he poked himself in the eye while shampooing. Instead of getting back in bed, he went to work. And fired people.

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Twister 1840

The guy with the expensive suit says, I fire all these people and don’t go to jail. The guy with the less expensive suit says, We have guns.

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Twister 2013

It was during the walk in the forest that she realized the philosopher’s words had no deeper meaning and that he was, in fact, full of shit.

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Twister 2193

He had his assistant buy the lottery ticket. If I win you get a raise, he told her. If you win I’m going to kill you, the assistant thought.

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Twister 2373

Jones walks into the office sadly and throws himself down on the chair and says, You win. And his boss puts down the phone and says, No shit

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Twister 2563

There had been an office party, a lunch at a local seafood place. Jones ate the salmon. Later, he drafted notes for a pitch from the toilet.

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