Back to the grind

After I entered the office and sat down in one of the chairs in front of Jack's desk I was scared to death. If I were to lose this job I had no backup plan, and nowhere to go and I guess that is also my own fault because of my poor grades. 

"I just spoke with the bosses. I told them that I had you on some top-secret, off-book mission that no one knew of that I had not given you a choice to do it or not, and that it was my fault that you had missed the meeting. I think they bought it. The meeting will be moved to another time and date in due course. I'm really sorry. I know how seriously you take this job and that you wouldn't want to have anything happen to your position here." 

"At least you had gotten me out of the mess and that was the best I could have hoped for. Now we just have to get through all the gossip from our co-workers for everything to be perfectly fine again." 

A little while later

"Everyone, plea