Day 2 - Underachiving
It was... surreal.
Ryan and Kelly making out noisily in the next cubicle, Michael still oblivious to his return, people stopping by every so often for forms or problems--except for a conspicuous duo, but he wasn't going to think about that. Not anymore.
All in all, it was like he'd quantum-leaped a few years back in the past, back to when his life was merely a tolerable mess rather than a disaster. It was a fragile illusion, but he was going to cling to it until it broke.
He knew he should say something to the two of them, just on principle, but why bother? They'd never listened anyway. He wasn't going to begrudge either of them... He recognized Ryan's steely look of "I'm going to make things normal again" that almost but not quite masked the panic in his eyes, and Kelly was the only one who was consistently nice and not weirded out by him thus far.
He was pretty much the worst HR rep in the history of the world, but he was also working for the worst paper company in the history of the world for the worst manager in the history of the world.
He figured that it evened out.
A/N: I guess this was a sticking point for me. I just get the feeling that when he told the two of them off in FT, it was the first time he'd bothered, and only because he was being filmed. I think Toby doesn't give a damn in S5.