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A Day in the Office
Rita swore under her breath as she stepped up to the locked door. Her badge lay on the icy concrete. She had dropped it again.
Bending to pick it up, she nearly slipped. Rita braced her hand on the door handle and pulled herself up, badge in her hand. She gasped in frigid air. This day was not starting off well. She prayed it wouldn’t get any worse. If it did, she might have to just give up, go home, and hide under the covers. That was just not going to happen. She had to earn her paycheck and pay all those bills.
Once inside, she took in a deep breath of the warm air pushing through the vents that kept the foyer from freezing like the outside. Well, at least she wasn’t out in the bitter cold.
The office was quiet as she walked in. At such an early hour, six o’clock, there were typically only two other people who were present in the large office. There was the R&D guy who seemed to live in his office and the lab. Rita rarely saw him, but the lights showed him present and working more than anyone else in the company. Then there was the accounting manager who seemed to put in almost as many hours. She had to come in early to get a start of her actual work before the demand of meetings swamped her and made her completely unproductive.
She liked the quiet. It allowed her to get the day started without chaos or too many demands. The few…
