I was just starting on my first fund of the day when Kim came around and placed three chocolate bars on my desk. “Wow! Thanks!” I chirped. “Why?”
“It’s my last day today,” she replied.
“Your last day today?!?” I managed to shriek before clamping my hands over my mouth. It’s not nice to make noise in an office. But I was shocked. Rodel had told me she still had two weeks.
I was lucky when I first started out as I was seated between Miss Congeniality and Mr. Too Nice Guy – Kim and Joseph. At first I was afraid of her because I had misunderstood Rodel’s introduction about her. He had said she hated him because he bullied her but it turns out that he had been joking, that is, he joke-bullied her and she joke-hated him. In reality they like each other’s company. She’s really nice and funny and as I discovered during our many trips to the pantry, very friendly. “Wow, you know so many people!” I commented after yet another colleague from another department chatted with her as she prepared her tea. “A Miss Congeniality. From now on I’m calling you Sandra.”
“Sandra” was also the first colleague who invited me to share a cab home with her, and it was there that we discussed iphones and privacy screens and What’s App’s strange interpretation of the term “block.” We shared jokes about secret relationships and vampires and other things. Of course we talked about work, too. I wasn’t afraid to ask her if I had work-related questions because she had a smile forever etched on her face.
I’m sad to see her go. Probably not as sad as somebody else, though, but then that’s another story. ;P
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