The boss’ spy
Hey folks, it’s my first day at work. Well, technically, I’ve been working at home, but today is my first full day at the kangaroo’s office.
Nobody is here — the kangaroo is in Singapore, one colleague is off sick and the other, the sales manager, is out. He was very nervous around me this morning. He was rushing about and panted in and out of the office to make me a set of keys. He apologized for not talking to me because “(he) has no experience speaking to ladies in English”.
A little history: this sales manager actually doesn’t have much to do because the company has only just started to land deals and deal-making in Japan is excruciatingly s-l-o-w. You can imagine my surprise that he was bustling around and was in the office by 8am (he usually arrives at 10am). Maybe he really had several meetings – who knows?
I pinged Azure to wish her happy birthday and we gossiped a little before her meeting. She chuckled over this salary man behviour: “You’re the boss’ spy, what.”
That is true. I think this situation can only get more interesting.
Just an aside, the office is in Okubo, which is only a stone’s throw away from my ex-language school in Shin-Okubo. For those who don’t know, this area is nicknamed Korean Village because of all the Korean joints lining the streets. Thai food is in abundance here and so are other cheap eats. In the evenings, it has a certain disrepute for night shenanigans. Not many expats get to have their office in a shady part of town — most are in affluent business districts like Roppongi, Kamiyacho, Akasaka-mitsuke (where I live) and Otemachi.
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