I didn't think I would get the Job. I freaking got the Job. Should I be happy or afraid? Today's my interview. Also my first day if I get hired. Here let me take it back a bit. My name's Rock Light. I'm 23 years old and up until now I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life after I got out of college. But I finally got accepted at a company. I can finally live my dream of being a white collared worker. Joy. I say that with as much sarcasm as I can put out. Anyways. I need this job. To be honest I'm pretty stoked. Getting to work at an Insurance company head office. That's just lovely. Sarcasm intended.
All my friends told me I'd drop out of college because of lack of ambition but I proved them all wrong. I did my 4 years. Now I'm here. A lot depends on this interview. I can feel myself shaking from the nervousness. Momma didn't tell me that there would be days like this. Mainly because I don't have one but I wanted to make a joke with myself to calm my self down. Yeah that didn't work. optimism Rock. optimism. You got this. You're a cool dude. Your professional. They'll see how awesome you are.
Ugh. Stop lying. I need to stop lying. Lets face it. I'm an awkward skinny guy who is soft-spoken and needs to get some balls. I've never had a girlfriend and I'm a social shut in who does nothing all day but play my game counsels and read my comics. Life was sad. But look at me now. I got a job. Yeaaaaaaah boooooooooooooooooooooooi. Lets pretend I didn't say that. My story starts not with a cool badass event. It starts with me running into a door in front of my future boss. That was only the beginning. I had lost before I even started.
My head is starting to hurt like hell as I look at my boss. He was a bald man. Kind of creepy if you ask me. His stare scared the hell out of me. His title was Director Sigma. I looked up to see him looking at me as if I was some invalid. Good job Rock. Good job. Fuckin up already. I get snapped out of my thoughts when Sigma speaks.
"Are you alright young man? You can't kill yourself before you haven't even been fired."
"W-Wait that means I got the job?!" I look up moving my head too fast it starts to pulse I wince at the pain. But I don't care this is a happy moment.
"Yep. Starting today your hired. I decided to skip the interview." Director Sigma said waving me off. I follow him into the building. My first impression when I walk in is...wow this place smells like Pumpkin Cinnamon spice. The next thing I notice is that there's a lot of tech everywhere. I didn't know insurance companies were so high-tech nowadays. My eyes wonder in amazement. Staring at everything and it's mom. This was only the front lobby. What was my cubicle gonna look like. I got excited.
Suddenly Sigma sent me a stare and I got a bit scared but it all good. (I hope) I continue to walk as I'm led into what looks like the main office room. Cubicles. Sweet Sweet Cubicles. Suddenly Sigma calls out a name.
"Zero. I need you." Sigma says simply. A blond guy with long hair stands up sighs and walks over. He looks unamused.
"I'm busy. There's this woman on the other line out for blood. She demanded to speak with the manager." Zero said irritably. He looks cool. He probably wasn't much older than me.
"Oh. Well who's not doing anything?" Sigma asks.
"Axl." Zero says as he rubs his temple and picks up the phone again yelling back at the phone saying something about a solid policy and she can get her lawyer. Sigma sighs.
"I'm sorry for this." He says to me. I'm confused. Why is he sorry was something bad about to happen? I however stay quiet.
"Axl." Sigma says gently at first. His glance goes towards a orangish brownish haired dude. It was spiked out some weird kind of way. Sort of like goku. Anyways this dude was jamming too hard. His headphones were on full he was rocking his head back and forth and mouthing words while pressing on his keyboard. Sigma and I walked closer to see he was actually playing Metroid on his computer. This guy...was obviously the odd duck out of the room. Sigma grumbled and snatched off the guy's headphones. He turned around quickly with a "Hey who killed by vibe" face but when he saw sigma the face turned in to a "Oh shit" Face.
"Errr...Sigma...how ya doing...you're bald head is lookin extra shiny today. What did you do to it?" Axl said as he scratched his head. Sigma just gave a look of disapproval. Axl gulped. I was amused at this scene. I however kept quiet. Sigma spoke.
"Axl. Make yourself useful and show Rock everything he needs to know. That's all. Oh and actually do some work today. Before I dock your pay rate." Sigma said as he walked away. As he walked away Axl chuckled. I then couldn't help myself the laughter had come out after Sigma was all the way gone.
"So dude. You're the new kid on the block. How does it feel."
"Like electrical currents are flowing through my veins." I say simply.
"That's deep man. Real deep..."Axl says. Then there's an awkward pause. Which is awkward to say the least. Then Axl breaks this.
"Well I'm Axl. I've worked here for like 3 years now and I can tell you one thing if you want to work here long. Don't be like me. I'm a horrible employee and I think Zero and Sigma want to murder me daily." Axl says. I think about this for a second then respond.
"So, then how do you have a job still." I ask out of curiosity.
"Easy. They love me too much. Plus every office needs a comic relief slacker."
"But this isn't some sitcom. This is real life. You need to get yourself together? What if they fire you one day?" I said with concern.
"Pfffffft. Your too paranoid. That's cute. Anyways kid." Axl starts. I interrupt him.
"My name is Rock and where do you get off calling me cute?" I say suddenly. Axl stares for a minute and then laughs.
"Alright Rock. Let me tell you what you're basically doing here. You are going to be connected with a customer who needs help. By our lovely secretary named X. You then find them a good policy and then set them up and fill out their info. Make them want to stay with our company. If you do that then you'll be employee of the month in no time. Make sure you're nice to everyone cause we've got some colorful people here. I'll get back to that later but first I will tell you the 10 rules of the office life." Axl says. I'm amazed at how fast he switched from being goofy to business time. I get why he's still here now. I nod my head as he talks.
"You still with me?" Axl asks. I nod my head.
"Good. These are the 10 rules to follow if you don't want to get fired. You better write this down bro." Axl said.
"R-Really?" I say searching for a notepad. But Axl laughs.
"No. Not really." Axl says.
"Okay rule number one. Don't bother Sigma. You'll get murcked."
"I kinda gathered that one." I say remembering Sigma's look of disapproval. Axl smiles.
"Rule number two. Stay away from the office slut. She just wants the D. She will ruin your life and give you STDs. You see that Brown haired girl over there? Yeah that's her. Stay away from that hoe scuze muffin." Axl said as he pointed to her. I almost want to laugh.
"Do you know that from experience?" I say still trying to fight back laughter.
"No. But there was there's been many men she's gotten fired. It's sad really." Axl says.
"What's her name?" I ask.
"Iris." Axl answers.
"Alright what's the third rule." I ask knowing that the girl probably wouldn't even look my way.
"Don't touch Zero's hair." Axl says.
"Why dare I ask?" I ask wondering why that would be a way to get fired.
"Well it's because you won't live to see the next day. Unless your X. Then you're okay. Or me. But I barely get away with it." Axl said.
"Seems legit." I replied thinking about it. That Zero guy didn't really seem like he'd get upset over hair. Ah well.
"Rule number 4 Never drug another employee. You'll get found out quick."
"Why would I...?" I start but then Axl cuts me off.
"Don't ask why. Ask when." Axl says. I stare at him for a second slightly confused.
"Alright...just tell me the other rules." I say. Axl clears his throat.
"Well there's never come into work with a hang over, Don't wear langerie to office parties. I learned that one the hard way..."
"Wait what,why?"
"It was april fools and yeah. I don't have to explain myself to you. Noob." Axl said indignantly. I decide to drop the question. Halfway not wanting to know.
"So I have a question Axl." I said suddenly. Axl shook his head.
"Call me sempai." Axl said. My mind immediately flashes back to some hentai I've seen sometime in my life where some girl is moaning "Sempaaaaaaaaaaaai" Hell no. So out came my response.
"Hell no." I respond quickly.
"I like your attitude. What is your question Kohai?" Axl asked.
"Don't call me that and Why are the rules so ridiculous?" I ask. Axl shakes his head knowingly.
"Silly Kohai. This place is ridiculous. So why wouldn't our rules be." Axl said. I take what he said into thought for a second.
"What do you mean?" I ask. Axl grins. I take that as a bad sign from what I've seen of him so far.
"You'll come to learn the meaning soon enough. Adios kid." Axl said about to walk off. I yell out "Wait" before he even has the chance to step away.
"You think you're just gonna quote Devil May Cry 4 and then just leave?" I said suddenly.
"Well yeah. I was trying to be cool."
"Alright. Cool points added. But where's my cubicle?" I ask with a smirk. I felt comfortable talking to him now. We had just made a reference with each other. This guy was alright.
"Oh it's right next to that window over there. It's at the end. See it?" Axl says as he points it out. I nod.
"Thanks." I say as I'm about to walk away.
"If you ever need anything just ask bro." Axl says as he walks off. I go towards the pointed out spot in the office that was my cubicle.
I see that the desk is completely bland except for a high-tech apple computer, A telephone shaped like a frog, a motivational poster. and a huge stack of files. I analyze everything. Suddenly the phone rings. I freak out for a second before picking it up. What the hell was I supposed to say?! No one told me. Shit. Shit. Erm. Well...
"Hello how may I help you?" I say. On the other end of the line I hear a grumble.
"You can go hang yourself. Your company sucks." The man on the other line say. Suddenly I look up to see Zero standing over my cubicle with an unamused face.
"Let me see that phone." Zero said sternly. I handed it to him quickly. Zero started yelling into the phone.
"I TOLD YOU NOT TO CALL BACK HERE SCUMBAG." Zero yelled into the phone. Suddenly I get the urge to walk away. As soon as I do Axl is in front of me leading to another phone in the cubicle behind it. He picks it up and we can hear the conversation.
"That's why your hair has split ends." A voice said smugly.
"Take that back you bastard. I'll cut you." Zero said.
"With what? Your split ends? Their thick enough." The voice said in a certain smug teasing way.
"I know your not talking mr. I'm rocking the pompadour 60 years too late. Bitch." Zero says.
"Hah. Whatever. Get on my level." The voice said.
"Damn." Axl said as we both listened. This was getting real. I sit holding back my comments.
"Listen. Some of us actually have jobs around here. Blues. Your just butthurt about your sales rate. So you know what, Get on my level." Zero hung up the phone and walked off. As he walked off Zero and I pretended we were working. As soon as Zero was gone. I knew I needed answers.
"What the hell was that?" I ask.
"Oh that's just Blues. He calls and harasses Zero randomly." Axl says as if it's no big deal.
"Why?" I ask wondering why someone would take time out of their day to do that.
"Oh he's from a bigshot rival company. One of the heads of it aswell. It's an ongoing rivalry thing. Honestly in the heart of it. It's friendly but lately it's been more and more malicious." Axl explained.
"Wow." I say taking all that in.
"Honestly at first I thought it was sexual tension but obviously something else is going on." Axl said as he walked away. I ponder on it for a second and then decide I needed to get my shit together. Finally after hours of learning and more strange events it's finally time to go home.
I learned a lot of stuff today, met a lot of people and witnessed some interesting things. For one there was some strange rival company out there bashing ours constantly. There's some cool people at work. Also the fact that odd things happen in the office and it's the norm to completely ignore it instead of like a regular individual. I seriously freaked out for a second when a woman came in with a broom and threaten to hurt us if we didn't change her policy. Zero picked up her up gently and set her outside the building and walked away. Looks like someone dropped us. Such a thing like that happened about 3 times in one 4 hour period. Also the printer exploded.
Instead of calling a repairman the secretary, X just punched it and it started working again. There was a group applause. I noticed that every time Sigma came in the room everyone starting working really fast. When Sigma was gone out of the room it was like social hour. Which was a bit awkward because I had only really known Axl so far. But still I was entertained the whole day. I think of all this as I drive home which is currently a little bedsit apartment in an awkward corner of the city. I remember wanting to live there because of this really cool plaza filled with all the best stuff ever that was right around the corner. It had a ice-cream joint, a comic store, and a game stop and a 5 and below. It was convenient to live right there. I pull into my parking spot and unlock the door.
It's clean like normal in here. I can't really stand a messy mess. God I just sounded like some Disney Jr. show. I need sleep. I get out of my formal attire and lay down. Not thinking of much else. I sit and wonder what I've gotten myself into as I drift off to sleep. I wonder if I'll flow with the rest of them eventually. I drift off to sleep thinking of Sigma's scary scowl and Axl's metroid playing.
To be continued.
This right here. I wanted to make a less serious story and another Rock X Axl one. But all my other usual pairings will be in it of course. This'll either be 5 or 3 chapters. It depends how the next one rights out. On another note. DUDE. I'm on cloud nine. My lover friend person dude man bunny person...actually I don't know what we are anymore...but anyways we dressed up like Rock and Axl today. He was Axl. Even had his hair spiked out with a scar mark drawn with marker on his face. All I did was apply a bit of hair gel to keep up my hair in the back and flip that part out. Thus gaining Megaman hair.
It made my day. So many references maaaaan. Anyways...now I'm rambling. Next chapter will be up tomorrow or the day after.
Peace.
