Four Foot Eight

Brent Cross

A tired-looking woman gets off the train and yawns. She's still not quite sure why she's here, but Head Office were very keen on someone calling in at the flagship stores to, well.. to do what? Something was said about "jollying the staff along", and something about "emphasising the commitment of Happybuy Holdings Ltd to a 'listening management' policy".
Sounds like mumbo-jumbo to me, she says to herself. Maybe there's a bit of worry among the worker bees at all this talk of aggressive takeovers from Japan, but it's nothing we won't be able to handle. And why does this meeting have to be at 8 o'clock? She rarely leaves for work before 9:30, and resents being dragged out two hours earlier than usual.

I'll tell them, she thinks. Oh yes, I'll jolly them along, the lazy overpaid scuzzbags. It's time this company made it perfectly clear just what the position of the shop floor workers is as far as the board and shareholders are concerned.