Tagged: Work (581)

Twister 1548

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

The watchman sneezes and wakes the cats and quickly regrets not taking his allergy pills; just another regret before the tigers are upon him

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Twister 1668

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

It was just words, and they knew it, but words still mattered. Two of them got it. But not the boss. He sat playing with his paper airplanes

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Twister 1823

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He was an ad man and then went into antiques and gave his store the tag line “Love Your Junk.” Everyone got the joke except his ex-boyfriend

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Twister 1975

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

She gave the mailman a coffee and he took this the wrong way and made a comment and she pushed him away and he said, The terrorists have won

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Twister 2173

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Then he tried to rhyme a word with “eternal” and he knew the interview was over. And he had failed again. You see, he said, I’m bad at life.

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Twister 2350

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He dug a hole just for the sake of digging it. He went inside to get a beer. It’s come to this, he told his wife. And he returned to the job

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Twister 2546

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

Jones gets a thrill from the tears of subordinates. He yells a lot. The office rings with his wrath. When he gets home, his kids ignore him.

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Twister 2708

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He slumped in his chair. He’d looked over his spam folder, and felt inadequate. That’s why they call it morbid curiosity, his colleague said

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Twister 3001

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He sits in the middle of his open concept office and notices that every female co-worker is sexy and this is why his productivity is so low.

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Twister 3278

By Arjun Basu | Published: March 5, 2011

He was a mattress salesman but it had never been his goal to be a salesman of any kind. I have a bad back, he’d lament, eating old pastrami.

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