The moment Cassie stepped through the automatic doors, she was greeted by a blast of cool air from the air conditioner and the smell of new furniture. The cool air was being circulated around the reception area by a powerful air conditioner she couldn’t see and the smell of new furniture was coming from a large new desk being assembled by a trio of hefty-looking men with shirts too small to contain their hulking muscle masses. It had been a long time since Cassie assembled a table or any other piece of furniture for that matter but she doubted that many people were needed for that kind of job. A lanky man who wasn’t dressed like the other three men held up an instruction manual in confusion. Unlike the other three who were dressed in rust-colored polo shirts and khakis, the lanky man was dressed professionally in a freshly pressed black suit. He was probably the company’s receptionist who had so kindly offered to help the three men with the job of assembling the new desk. To Cassie,
While everyone had been hoping that Cassie would get the job, no one, herself included, was actually expecting her to get a job after her first interview. Once she walked out through the front door of Tech Town, she stood outside in a daze, clutching her manila folder close to her chest. She had gotten a job! She spun around in a circle and let out a little squeal, stopping only when nearby people started to give her odd looks. For a brief second while her body was flooded with serotonin, she considered skipping all the way to The Bean House or Hair Glam to share the good news with someone but decided against it. She was in no way fit enough to skip that distance. She settled with semi-power walking all the way to the train station.Once she got on the already crowded train, she tried not to let the scent of the body odor or the f
Cassie’s morning had started on greatly. Maybe she should have known something was very wrong and was going to happen later in the day. She had woken up to the last chime of the grandfather clock in the hallway. Without looking at her phone, she knew it was five o’clock already. Somehow in all her years of living in that house, her body had gotten accustomed to waking her at the fifth chime of the clock; nothing earlier, nothing later. She padded out of the room barefoot, the back of her pajamas slick with the seat. Maybe if she worked really hard, she would soon be able to afford a more functional air conditioner but until then she figured that she would have to contend with waking up in a pool of her own sweat every morning.She started off with her chores; vacuuming the living room, washing the plates in the sink fr
Already used to dealing with children whom she frequently had to remind to say please and thank you, Cassie found it hard to physically bite down on her tongue to prevent herself from demanding a thank you from her new boss for fetching him his morning coffee. Technically, he was in no way required to thank her for bringing him coffee but Cassie believed that people should still use their magic words no matter the situation. And if she remembered correctly, he also didn’t thank her when she had brought his coffee and apple cinnamon waffles. But he had left her a huge tip which more than made up for his lack of manners.He turned back to look at her. “Are you just going to stand there?” He asked with an annoyed grunt. He didn’t wait for a reply and continued to stalk further into his office giving Cassie no
Cassie spent most of the morning on her knees. The hard marble tiling of the floor of Felix’s office might have been pretty to look at but it was hell to have to kneel on it as she sorted through the mountain of paper on the ground.She had only gotten a few minutes off from kneeling and arranging when she had to run over to other departments in Tech Town to deliver the papers that didn’t belong in Felix’s office. She put the very last folder into the filing cabinet and managed to walk over to the rug in the middle of the room to let her body drop to the ground as if she were a discarded rag doll. She hung her arm over her head to protect her eyes from the bright fluorescent light in the ceiling. She had no idea that being a personal assistant would have been that hard and tedious.
Felix waited for his new personal assistant to hunt for a notepad and a pen to take to their meeting. She was wasting too much time with her search for the items and ordinarily, he would have snapped at her but he wasn’t looking forward to attending the meeting and for once in his life, he was grateful for having his time wasted.“I’m ready.” She announced, trotting towards him. She was clutching the items she had found close to her chest: the notepad with the company’s letterhead had come from somewhere in his office but he had no idea where the glittery pink pen with an obnoxiously large pom pom on top of it had come from because he definitely had never owned something like that in his life.Felix gave her a curt nod. “Follow me.” He instructed. The pair began to walk towards the elevator at the end of the brightly lit hall. “All you have to do at this meeting is sit in the corner and take notes throughout. Preferably, take them in shorthand and then after the meeting, typ
It was drawing close to seven o’clock in the evening when Felix felt a presence hovering above him. He ignored it and continued to type on his keyboard determinedly. He had been able to spot the errors in the program he had been writing all week and intended on correcting them before he answered whoever it was that required his attention. He looked up from his laptop’s screen. His eyes were red and his back was sore from the lengthy time he had spent hunched over the laptop. He found his new personal assistant staring down at him earnestly.Despite the day’s tasking events, she still managed to look put together and generally unaffected. He probably looked like the walking dead. He was glad there wasn’t a mirror nearby for him to see how disheveled he looked. Cassie was an excellent PA, often going the extra mile for all the tasks that he asked her to do. She was quick and efficient and used her initiative when performing tasks. She might not have known it, but her suggesti
So are you on an errand from the boss right now?” Daniel asked.Cassie shook her head. “Nope. I’m clocking out for the day.” Cassie was glad that she was done for the day, if she spent any more seconds with Felix in his lavish office, she might just strangle him; lawsuit and layoff be damned.Surprised, Daniel looked at his watch. “You’re extremely lucky. I have a meeting scheduled to take place in the next twenty minutes. I just stepped out to stretch my legs.” The elevator’s doors slid open and they both stepped out. “Speaking of meetings, I heard that some bad shittery went down at one of the meetings you most likely attended this afternoon.“Calling what went down at that meeting ‘bad shittery’ is probably the understatement of the year.” Cassie snorted. “It was horrible and completely unprofessional; a complete waste of everyone’s time.” She had no qualms admitting how much of a waste of time the meeting was to Daniel. She would never tell Felix that he was right, not after he ha