Author's note: HetaSoft is my take on the office AU (in which I draw very heavily on my own 9-5 life). It's the ongoing tales of a small software company. HetaSoft was founded by Ludwig (CEO) & Kiku (VP of Technology) in 2007, and has grown into a dysfunctional family of sorts. Naturally, most of the Hetalia characters work there in some capacity, and talk (flirt, argue, complain, etc) constantly on gchat. These are the transcripts of their chats...
Ludwig Beilschmidt: Gilbert. I have been informed by Ms. Braginskaya that you are in violation of the dress code. This is the 3rd time this week and it's only Wednesday.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Seriously Luddy? you don't have better things to do with your time than complain about my awesome tee?
Ludwig Beilschmidt: Your t-shirt is not "awesome." It is inappropriate for the office setting. The dress code requires that you wear business attire, or, at the very least, business casual when clients are not present in the office.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Oh come on. You wrote the stupid dress code yourself. you can definitely bend it for your amazing older brother who is the best software tester ever. in order to break your totally unawesome software, i gotta be comfortable. I gotta be ME, man! and that doesn't mean wearing a stupid monkey suit.
Ludwig Beilschmidt: It is not about comfort. It is about presenting a proper face to the world and instilling faith in our clients that although we may be a young company, we are professional and capable.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Blah, blah, blah. Don't you have a staff meeting or something you should be running? Oh hey, for the company-wide meeting tomorrow, can you get those Italians to cater the lunch again? they're so cute!
Ludwig Beilschmidt: Don't try to change the subject. I am sending Elizaveta over with an appropriate shirt and tie for you to put on.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: }:-O
Matthew Williams: Hey, Gilbert. I just uploaded the latest release to the github server. It's ready for you to test.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: ahhh you couldn't have waited until tomorrow morning? I wanted to get out of here early, Diablo III is calling my name.
Matthew Williams: Sorry. Nice tie, BTW.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: :-\
Antonio Carriedo: hiiiii gil look i finally got my own laptop! now i can chat too in between my projects :) :) :)
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Toni! How'd you manage that?
Antonio Carriedo: franny said he asked finance very nicely to approve the purchase and after lots of hard negotiation he was able to get jos to say yes!
Gilbert Beilschmidt: Hard negotiation my ass. You know I don't want to hear that shit!
Antonio Carriedo: you are very silly gil. anyway, i am taking my break after cleaning up the conference room.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: What was happening in there?
Antonio Carriedo: ludwig was having a meeting i think? those cute italians were there to drop off the lunch and the dark haired one didn't shove me out of the way this time :) :) :)
Gilbert Beilschmidt: The italians were here and i missed it? Goddammit. Please tell me there are some leftover sandwiches, at least.
Antonio Carriedo: very sorry but the customer support guys took all the sandwiches.
Gilbert Beilschmidt: :-(
