Turns out I work for him

Her People.....

As the morning sun shines and comes falling into Yeon-so's bed, the alarm starts ringing, waking Yeon-so up. She gets out of the bed with a light smile, to get ready and prepare the breakfast. Jumping out of the bed she rushes off to take a quick bath and then comes down to prepare the breakfast. She made bacon sandwiches for breakfast and smelling the fragrance of fresh fried bacon, everyone came down without any efforts, Yeon-so giggles and murmurs, "As expected, bacons always work." Looking at Yeon-so, Mrs. Kim's expressions changed and she taunted her saying, "don't you have work? Are you planning to watch us eat? Go! Get ready for work." Yeon-so just looked at herself in the mirror behind the dining table, she was already ready to take off for work, it was just that no one noticed it.

She took her bag, and headed out without saying anything. Standing at the bus stop alone felt lonely sometimes and today, it was especially lonely, "even today, they didn't act like a family towards me, just what in the hell have I done to them?" she was thinking, with a heavy heart and the bus arrived. Getting on the bus is easy, the difficult part is to go at the front row so that she won't miss the stop. After struggling to move a little, she reached the front row. Looking at the bus, going on its destinated path, she thought, "is there any destinated path in my life as well? Am I walking the right path? my world only revolves between office and home. Being at office, working for money and being at home, working for everyone. In this process, where am I?" her eyes turned red as she arrived at the office.

As soon as she entered the office, Jessi popped out and started singing, "Happy Birthday to you, Happy birthday to you, Happy Birthday Dear Yeon-so, Happy birthday to you. Yeeeehh!! Happy Birthday, My dearest friend." Said Jessi and hugged Yeon-so, as she gets overwhelmed and bursts in tears. "Thank you, Jessi. Thank you, everyone." Says Yeon-so in a little trembling voice. She was happy, not because of the celebration but because, there were some people who still cared for her.

After a short celebration the other employees went back to work, Jessi and Yeon-so went to meet the manager, Yeon-so and Jessi worked in different departments and they were in charge of reporting the weekly reports to the manager. They arrive at the cabin and knock the door. "Come in." says the manager at the other side of the door. They both go in with a professional yet polite smile and says, "Good Morning, sir." In sync and hand over the file of report to the manager.

He kept the files down, and turned towards them asking, "what was going on earlier, at the lobby?" Yeon-so speaks up before Jessi could say something saying, "We are sorry, sir. It was nothing." The manager kept looking at Yeon-so for a while and said, "Were you all..., celebrating my transfer?" "No sir, don't get it the wrong way, actually it's Ms. Kim Yeon-so's birthday today, we were celebrating that, we are sorry, if it disturbed you." Said Jessi taking Yeon-so's hand. The manager again looks at Yeon-so and asks, "is it your birthday, Ms. Kim Yeon-so?" she nods and says I agrees to it. The Manager wishes her a happy birthday, and gives blessing for living a long life, happily. Yeon-so thanks him sincerely and they both move out of the cabin.

"Why did you mention my birthday, in front of him?" Yeon-so looks at Jessi, she was confused and Jessi just says, "whatever, why do we have to hide it?"

She wished that it would be nice for less people to know about her birthday, but by the end of the day, everyone in the office had wished her to have warm birthday, which made her feel special, but the sky was turning dark eventually, she had to remember her place and act accordingly.

Every human has a memory that he/she wants to hide, from their family, their friends and colleague, etc. Do we share those memories with someone else, when? Why do we share them? There were various such questions in Yeon-so's mind.

As she was about to live the office, the manager calls her in the cabin, "sir, you asked for me?" says Yeon-so as she enters the office, "yes, come in Ms. Kim Yeon-so." Says the manager, she comes in and stands in front waiting for the manager to say something, since the manager was and old man with on one by his side, he often thought that the people in the office were his own family, but in order to not spoil them, he acted tough and strict. Knowing that it was Yeon-so's birthday and his last day as manager, he prepared a gift for Yeon-so, "Ms. Kim Yeon-so, sit down." He says with a gentle and polite smile, seeing the manager smiling for the first time, Yeon-so was shocked, yet she sat down on the chair and said nothing.

"Yeon-so, I have always thought of you all as my children, but I didn't want it to affect the work so I never treated you as one. Please, don't hate me for that, now that I am leaving, I feel like talking it out. All these years, that we worked together, I was happy to be with you all. I'm sorry for not being gentle, and treating you all just like some employees, when I actually wanted to treat you like my children only. Always remember, from start to end, you were my one of the favorite employees. And that's the only reason I'm saying this all to you, now." Listening to the manager, Yeon-so's eyes filled with tears, and her heart sank but she was still composed until, the manager removed the gift box from one of the drawers saying, "This, it's nothing much, I knew it was your birthday today. So, I bought you a small gift." As soon as she excepts the gift tears fall off her eyes and she start's crying lightly, "Thank you, sir. For loving us, for thinking of us as your own children. We might never be the ideal employees but we all love you as much as well." She says in her little trembling voice. And start laughing.