Office Chatter


I leaned over to my co-worker and let him know that I was a curious and noisy person. "Is Shelia a curious person?" I logged in remotely in order to work alongside Richard and was conveniently commandeering Shelia's desktop as she was out of the office today. Shelia had been with the firm for only a few weeks. A quite and slightly reserved person in a high powered, male, testoster-roni type of profession, she seemed like a confidant. "Not quite sure, I don't really talk to her that much." His desk is less than a foot away alongside.

"What! You don't really talk to her? She is practically another appendage and you don't talk to her? Where is she today? What is her life's ambition? Where is she from? Does she have brother's and sisters? At least give the poor woman some polite conversation." A blank stare glances back at me.

"Do you ever just sit still?"

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