Two Friends And A Office Building

song 3: meetings

Another office meeting. Someone broke the coffee machine and everyone was brought in to discuss finding out who did it and what their punishment would be.

"To tell you the truth, I broke it," Mike whispered to Shermy as they walked to the meeting room. "I was trying to make hot cocoa with it and then I fucked it up because I put too much water in it."

"Dude, what the hell I was looking forward to making a cup of coffee today. Shermy elbowed Mike and pouted again. "Last week you broke the vending machine and now this, come on man."

"Hey, that vending machine was asking for it, it didn't give me back my dollar." Mike jokingly said. "Dude you fucking roundhouse kicked it. I watched you do it. You killed it, you killed our only snack friend in the world." Shermy said as she looked at Mike, concerned that he somehow roundhouse kicked a vending machine and destroyed it in one single blow. "Ok yeah, I could have handled it a lot better than just brute force," Mike said. "Hey, at least we got 20 bucks worth of quarters out of it!"

"I forgot, what did you buy again with your chare of the quarters?" Shermy asked. "I got like a lot of root beer at 7-11 again," Mike said. "And also a lot of beef jerky. Like a LOT of beef jerky. What did you buy?"

"Oh I put it in my bank account, I don't like really spending stuff so quickly." Shermy was really worried about spending too much money since she has a habit of overpaying for stuff. She has over 400 bucks in her bank account from preventing her spending habits, she's extremely proud of it. "Oh right, you're trying to stop your spending habits. I completely forgot about that." Mike said as they both entered the meeting room.

"Ok, so which one you bastards broke the coffee machine?" The Boss said. The Boss is pretty mean at times, but usually, all bosses are. She's old too, somewhere around in her 60's. She worked in the company for 20 years and rose to power through hard work, which to Shermy and Mike it's complete bullshit, but whatever she's The Boss so you can't complain.

"Ok so here's the plan, we DON'T mention about me breaking it. Got it?" Mike whispered to Shermy. "Yeah, yeah I got you don't worry," Shermy whispered back. The other workers got to discussing who did it, names were thrown around a lot. "It feels like their throwing out names around just because they dislike the person in some way, some of these reasons don't even make sense..." Shermy whispered to Mike. "Yeah like you're really gonna blame someone on the 5th floor? We're on the 3rd, how the hell would it be their fault?"

Without notice, someone yelled at "What if it was Mike? He and Shermy have been pretty silent since this started." Others agreed and Mike froze in fear. "Oh fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck me I'm so screwed." He thought. Shermy had to think fast and in a matter of quick thinking she yelled out "IT WAS THE INTERN, JON!"

Jon started his internship the day the coffee machine broke, so it was more believable to assume the new guy did it, usually all new people break things at the office so it was easy to pin it on him. Jon was also in the meeting and he freaked out. "W-what!? I didn't do it, it was totally Mike. Like, come on!" Jon said in anger. "Don't try to get out of this Jon, just admit you did it. We'll pay for it but it's coming out of your pay." The Boss said. "You don't even pay me to begin with!" Jon replied. "Exactly." The Boss said, smirking.

"Ouch..." Mike said. "Yeah jeez..." Shermy agreed. That had to hurt to hear. Jon couldn't win, so he gave up. "Fine, I did it. Let's just get out of here." Everyone got up and started leaving. Mike looked at Shermy in amazement.

"You're welcome," Shermy said confidently. "You're lucky I thought that whole story on a whim." Mike just shook his head and just fist-bumped Shermy. "Yeah... holy shit thanks, dude." Mike said sighing. Mike and Shermy walked out and went back to work.