chapter 12

The day went by pretty uneventfully, as did the next day, after about a week Sid was called to see his boss. He was a little apprehensive but I wouldn’t say worried, he had been smart and clever, undetectable. “You wanted to see me sir?” he asked poking his head through the crack in the door “yes please have a seat, I want to have a little chat” the man said calmly. He was not an unpleasant man, but Sid was bad with authority figures, he was suppressing the urge to punch him in the face for being in a higher position. The authority figure in question was a very squishy man, his hairline was receding at a very noticeable rate, his nose was round and had a bit of a shine to it, a bit stereotypical when you think of what a boss should look like.
“I know what you are, Sid” he said with a strange tone to his voice “oh?” Sid said feigning interest “then what am I?” the man played with some papers he had scattered on his desk, “you” he continued “are a real go-getter, a man with a lot of ambition, I’m telling you Sid, you have a lot of potential in this company” his tone lightened immensely “people have been talking about you Sid, they’re starting to take notice, I wouldn’t be surprised if the board of directors wanted to see you soon”. At that thought he perked up a little “really?” he said, rather enthused at the thought; the words “board of directors” floated in the air in a dark red haze.
“Thank you, you know what? I like you sir,” Sid said in a faux happy voice, he was lying obviously but his boss was too stupid to notice “why thank you Sid, I like you too” in reality Sid was thinking “I can’t wait to put a few slugs through your head, fucking asshole” but the rather large man couldn’t tell. “I’m promoting you for your contributions” he tried hard to remember what position he was in before the boss said that “thank you sir, I would be a?” “you’ll be an assistant supervisor, that’s an extra two dollars an hour in case you were wondering” Sid raised an eyebrow to show he was still listening “one step closer to bringing this shitty company down, then I won’t have to wear this goddamned monkey suit and pretend I’m having a good time” he gave the boss the obligatory high five and left the office, just another day at Globo-chem.