Chapter 3: A New Job
'The long task ahead is going to be a tough one,' Amber thought to herself as she walked into her new working environment on a horrible Monday morning.
Amazed at the design of this monstrous office lobby, she started staring around her, utterly astounded at the sight.
The lobby jutted out from the main building of offices, so the ceiling was the roof. Just the ceiling was amazing. The ceiling and walls were tan with like colors dotting all of them, and the ceiling had interestingly shaped windows, with neat patterns flowing from them. The patterns continued on down the walls and wove around the windows on the walls, then they finished at the plush, dark blue carpet. The furniture in this huge room was also in interesting shapes, though Amber could tell that they were extremely comfortable. The colors of the furniture were an array of colors, yet they stayed within the limits of complementing the ceiling, walls, and carpet.
"First day?" A short, brown haired, older by her appearance, employee casually asks, seeing her looking around.
"Um..." Amber thinks really quickly, not wanting to bring attention to herself, "no, it's just every time I walk in here, it amazes me, still haven't gotten over it." She finishes with a small smile.
"Oh," the older woman says, then she walks away, looking a little prude.
Amber just sort of rolls her eyes.
She walks into her new boss's office, after hearing her name getting called there over the speakers.
"Ah, you must be Amber. Please, have a seat," this big man with a small mustache says, amid chatter, when she walks in the door. He has an annoyed look on his face.
"So, what is the meeting about this morning?" a tall and straight employee with short, dark hair says casually, she, also looking a bit prude.
'Man, all these people look prude. Must be the result for working at this... place.' Amber thinks to herself, then, knowing her position as a new person in this office, she tries to copy the expression, trying to fit in.
"Well," the boss says, glaring at the lady who had said that, "This meeting is about the annual meeting that the heads of all the Luther Corp's subsidiaries have to go to, well, annually. Our problem has to deal with the fact that the atrocious meeting fell on a very important date for me, so I have other plans. So, someone needs to go in my place. Anyone up for grabs?"
No one raised their hands.
Everybody was actually silent.
Then, everybody looks at Amber as she slowly raises her hand, a look of surprise covering there faces.
"Um, I will go," she says very softly, but loud enough so that the boss can hear her, as the prude expression that she had craftly worn slowly slid off her face.
"Okay, perfect. The meeting's this Friday in Smallville. Do you know where that is?"
"Yeah, I've heard of it," she says, not giving away the fact that she had relatives there.
"Okay, then we're good." the boss says with an actually nice look on his face. "This meeting's finis."
Meanings:
subsidiaries- companies controlled by one big company
finis- the French word for finish/finished