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Office Politics

A 2-post collection

Challenge #04539-L155: Something-something Power, Something-something...?

'You may find after a time that the having is not so pleasing as the wanting. It is not Logical but I have found it to be so.' More or less a 'Spock' quote . Have fun. -- She Who Knits

[AN: Unfun Fact - My mother rubbed my aspiration failures into my face with this quote at every opportunity. I am desperately trying to not let that flavour this story. Wish me luck]

Hail to the Chief Executive Officer, they who have the power of ultimate control. They decide the schedule. They decide the pay. They decide who stays and who goes. They have the staff to do just about everything for them. They get to have holidays in luxurious resorts, have yachts, and play golf.

He who decides who rises and who falls.

There is a dance, in the offices. Under the buzzing hum of neon lights. Suck up to the upper ranks, but not too much. Be the right amount of helpful. Be respectful when correcting the ones above... and show authority to the ones below. Always be on guard against the obviously obsequious toady. They are for sure after your post.

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Challenge #02871-G314: Cause and Effect

Haiku can be strange

Five, seven, and five again

Refrigerator -- Anon guest

There were magnets with words on them. Yet another Human invention that could be used for long-term communication and yet was still used for random art. For instance, the poetic form on the communal chilled food store. A thing that described itself and was still a joke. Typically Human.

Companion Zue considered the words scattered around the magnetic surface, and thought about the message she might leave for the

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