claire
Elevator opens.
15 minutes to meeting with Claire, good.
Get some coffee, should I get a donut or oatmeal - I don’t know… Fine oatmeal - but with extra raisins.
In line for oatmeal fist clenched, ugh is this his first time using a ladle?
Looks like it’s donut for breakfast after all - had oatmeal yesterday so it’s fine. Looks at hand. Holy shit, my nail is missing… I just got these done last week.
Eat donut.
Open computer.
Thumb on keyboard. Lick off the donut jelly.
First email, or should I go to slack…
Oh good Claire got back to me about those numbers from last week… let’s see what she’s thinking.
She actually expects me to have these numbers by 8?
We told her we don’t know.
God she’s such a bitch.
Sip coffee.
Oh I didn’t look at that spreadsheet - the one with next quarter’s projections yet.
She’s going to be asking about that. Are we going to need extra headcount?
We always need extra headcount Claire.
Where was that file - the one where we were making Q1 predictions?
I don’t know.
Looks at hand. That manicure cost $300 I can’t believe I lost a nail.
My nail is out there somewhere and I’m here - okay whatever, what was I doing?
Spreadsheet, Claire. Only 10 minutes until this meeting and I’ve got to pee.
Swigs coffee.
Budget, spreadsheet. What’s she gonna want to know? I don’t know… How much was spend last quarter… eeh
That’s in another deck I think. Was it the OP_v1 or OP_v2 deck? Wait there are 4 of them?
More coffee.
I don’t know, Nate might know. He worked on that project, maybe he’s online.
Ah yes his icon is green.
Why is this meeting so fucking early?
Slurps coffee.
Too much coffee.
Do I have enough time?
Checks spreadsheet.
Switch to slack.
No response.
Back to spreadsheet.
What line - wait is this the v1 or v3 deck.
Ugggh I don’t know, I don’t know….
Slack notification.
Ooo maybe Nate knows which deck it is.
Oh no it’s Claire just reminding me how important this meeting is.
Thanks for nothing Claire.
Grabs coffee.
Empty.
Who would make 4 versions of the same deck?
I’m not going to make it-
Slack again - It’s just steve
No time for his shit
3 minutes left
v1 or v3 deck?
I don’t know…
Fuck - what happened to my nail?
I wrote this at a workshop at The Center for Fiction. The topic was Day Jobs.