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Submitted by freefortermpapers on 06/24/2008 03:00 PM
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Josh Garfinkel
Jonathon sat at his grey, mock-wood desk and stared down at the pile of case files he had to organize alphabetically by name of client. His eyes felt heavy, and he still hadn't taken the cap off of his cheap black Bic pen. The office walls formed a pale yellowish grey square around him, the monotony only broken up by a large grey door at one end of the room, and a standard black rimmed clock directly above the door. The clock was ticking the seconds down like a metronome from hell; striking a rhythm that Janice followed methodically with her ponderously slow typing. She typed one letter a second today, just like she had six months ago, just like she would in a week.
Janice was the secretary that sat opposite Jonathon in the cramped non-window office. Jonathon had no idea why she typed so slowly, it drove him close to madness every day of his life. After a few days of doing nothing but typing messages into the computer, anyone would quickly learn where each letter was located on the keyboard, and increase in proficiency rapidly. Not Janice, though. No, she would never stop typing one little letter a second, each key driven home with the precision and sometimes the volume of a mallet smashing a stake into the ground.
The large grey door that spent most of the day standing lifeless under the clock opened slowly, and a woman that Jonathon recognized as one of the lawyers who worked in a window office down the floor walked in with a little boy who couldn't have been more than five or six years old. Jonathon immediately swung his head back down to the case files to avoid having to speak to the woman or make eye contact. The first thing that Jonathon had been taught about job interviews was to make consistent eye contact, and the first thing he had immediately stopped doing was going to any job interviews. He had gotten the secretarial position he now held solely through answering an ad in the classifieds...
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