Alice, can you come here for a second? I need to talk to you.

Alice knew that when her boss started a sentence with those words, nothing good could come out of it, she thought that he was probably going to talk to her about her being late all the time so she started forming a defense strategy. On her way to his room, Alice passed her boss’s secretary Peggy. She leaned over, lowered her voice and asked her “Do you have any idea what it’s all about?” Peggy looked at her with a tiny anger in her eyes “I haven’t got a clue, he isn’t telling me anything”. Alice shrugged her shoulders and continued walking toward her boss’s office. When she finally entered his office her boss was already setting down on his executive chair, facing the door, and he motioned Alice to sit on the chair that was across from him. Alice closed the door behind her and approached the chair.

Alice, you know that we recently have accepted a group of new interns, Ive decided that each of them will join one of our senior writers so that they will see exactly how things work around here.

Her boss, Mr. Egret (who actually sort of looked a little like egret), was so serious and uptight whenever he spoke. he had this vein on the left side of his face at the exact spot where the upper lip and the bottom lip meet. Alice always thought that the reason he never smiled was that it was physically painful for him, that if he would smile the vein will literally pops and tear apart his face.

His last words left Alice a little confused. True, she was one of the senior writers, but from being a senior writer to being someone who will help young writers that probably will follow her around all day, was a long way. Plus, she really wasnt in the mood for a bunch of youngsters that most likely still think that journalism is a life mission and that it is all about politics and the Middle East conflict, she didn’t want to be the one to tell them it wasn’t. She also thought that her boss knew all that, knew that she didnt want to walk around all day and wipe some silly interns nose. Then she heard it,