"I wouldn't worry too much about that email from management," Sam said as he handed the box of adaptors to Carl and Alison on Monday morning. "All you have to do is show that you have a lockable desk drawer you can leave your laptop in when you aren't around and they'll leave you alone."
"So now I have to buy a lockable drawer for my laptop?" Alison said as she rummaged through the box of adaptors. "Am I going to be compensated for this?"
"How much can one cost?" Sam said, turning towards his monitor. "Ah shit! I forgot that the Staples website is blocked."
"Why is it blocked?" Carl asked. "What's so terrible about it?"
"All online shopping sites have been blocked," Alison said. "It was in that email they sent out last month about 'responsible internet usage'."
"I must've missed that one," Carl said.
Sam took out his phone. "OK, they're not too expensive. Only around seventy or eighty dollars."
"Seventy or eighty dollars?" Alison exclaimed, taking an adaptor from the box. "They want us to spend seventy to eighty dollars on a drawer? They won't even leave cables and adaptors on the desks for us to use and they want us to spend seventy to eighty dollars? on a special drawer? Screw them! I'm not doing that!"
"They won't leave adaptors and cables on the desks because of the possibility of theft," Sam said. "HDMI cables are expensive."
"They could tie them down," Carl said, taking the adapter box from Alison. "They could literally glue them to the desks. Or they could make us sign them out for the day. We're essentially doing that with adaptors anyways. Neither me nor Alison have brought in our own adaptors in ages! We just keep taking random ones from this box in the morning and bringing them back at night! The company might as well make adaptors available to sign out."
"That would require an investment the company isn't willing to make," Sam said.
"Apparently," Carl said.
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Aktuelle LiteraturA first draft of a mess about a guy, a pandemic, and an empty office. It's about missing things. One of the things that's missing is a plot. As I said, this is a first draft and it's here for funsies. At some point it'll be taken down because I'll w...
