He had been ready to retire, when they made him an offer.
Retirement wasn’t compulsory, of course. He’d given the company a good number of years and he figured someone at the top felt they should give him a promotion and a nice corner office with magnificent views across the city and beyond. He’d work diligently in the role of Accounts Manager, and was now being offered the position of Negotiations Advisor. He wasn’t at all sure what that entailed, but it sounded impressive. Naturally, he had been involved in some decision-making discussions from time to time. Obviously, someone figured this was qualification enough. It was generally known that he’d lost his wife a few years back and they never had children. Was this being taken into account?
All of this transpired a few months ago and he’d accepted gracefully and had gone straight out and bought himself a new suit. He was now fully ensconced in a daily routine. He was offered a secretary, but he figured that would be pushing it. When not staring out the window, he would turn his chair so that passers-by could see he was on his phone. Once or twice a week he would make a three-minute call to a supplier or customer, giving his best impression of someone deeply involved in some sort of negotiation, for anybody looking in. That would be it. That would be his only self-imposed duty for the week.
As for the remainder; three things. He had taken up listening to audio books through his local library, he had found a channel that ran podcasts that were of particular interest, and finaly, a classical music channel.
He could enjoy most of these things while watching the traffic below, the pedestrians waiting at the crossing, and the ongoing antics of pigeons fighting over who gets to sit outside his window.
He sometimes feels that the role he enjoys was some kind of horrible mistake, some sort of horrendous administrative blunder, and has wondered whether asking about it would be the right thing to do.
He would have to think about it…
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