Épisode 4

A proverb says `` by dint of forging you become a blacksmith and by dint of getting down to it you become skilled at it '' it is in this sense that I grew up, that I was educated or better, educated. I tackle all corners of the work I touch everything and I'm not afraid to learn, afraid of falling or failing, afraid of entering a framework where I have no control, on the contrary that's what I research, discovering other professional horizons, working in the advertising world for me is a great asset that I would be happy to show in my CV. To work with Mr. Oxford is a marvel for me it is a big chance that I have and I will do everything to surpass myself. Although our meeting was the most unpleasant, I cross my fingers that he forgot and give me a second chance. Who knows, maybe it's this second chance he just offered me by taking me to his right, or he really didn't recognize me. Pfff it leaves me in suspense. I'm going to knock on his door and enter. I close behind me. He is in front of a large window and looks outside, he does not even turn around eh ah. His office is large, it's fantastic, I've seen it as beautiful as it looks before, but for him it has a little feminine touch that makes it better. There are armchairs, like a small living room, surely that's where he sleeps his girlfriends. But why am I thinking about this oh god deliver me from bad thoughts. I am standing there waiting for him to turn around, I feel that this man is going to give me a hard time. He finally decides to come to himself, he turns around and goes to sit down. I don't know if I should also sit down or not, too bad I remain standing when you do not know the habits of a person better not to try it. I see him open his machine, he takes a pen and crosses his feet, he looks at me, ah that's already it he knows I'm here. I thought I was invisible., He is about to say a word

_ you will stay there planted like a pole or sit down

_ no sir

I hasten to sit down. What does it cost him to ask me to sit down politely, I'll even get away with this man. I am stressed again, he does not speak but looks at me, he handles his pen in his hands and does not take his eyes off me. He doesn't know it's rude to stare at a person like that, especially when he sees them already uncomfortable. The little courage I had is disappearing, damn it is not possible. He clears his throat at last he's going to say something

_ welcome to Oxford

_ thank you sir

_ you passed all the tests with flying colors I hope I did not recruit a nutcase

Ekieeee how he treats me crazy it means he knows it's me otherwise why use that word there is only one crazy to act like I did. Definitely this man confuses me. I just smile stupidly and he adds

_ this is the case where well

_ uhh no sir, I am totally in good shape and I have every right to enjoy my mental and physical faculties

_ if you say so. As you read in your contract the working hours are 7:30 am no more I hate the delay. 1h30 break, The closing is 5:30 pm Jewish & on paper but I can extend. No departure if I am still in the offices I might need my assistant is what I make myself understood

He takes me for a child or what stuippp. Normally after the hour it is overtime but as we are in an operating country we only line up. I paw in my heart before I answer him

_ yes sir it is understood.

He takes his phone and looks I don't know what before putting it down he looks at me again, he has to look at me before speaking stuippp

_ there are restrictions in my establishment which I hold and I sanction severely. If you are here to make gossip girlfriends you can win the door, if you are here to forge false relationships that will impact our mission the door is still open, I will continue. If you are there to find a husband or some intimate relationship, you have won the door. Romantic relationships between employees are prohibited and I hold it bitterly. We are here to work, at my level I have been able to achieve a number of feats in communication and advertising so I will not allow anyone to make me regress because she was disappointed with her colleague, she no longer works good because she is in love with her colleague. I don't want that at home. And if by chance you have a romantic relationship far from us and you experience a disappointment as a result, keep it at home before you walk through my door. Here I am advocating professional relationships and not undercover relationships. The sanction is the final dismissal of the two protagonists. These are my rules that are to be respected or the door.

I laugh in my heart, this man does not take himself for 5 fr. Will I even get away with him? I've always had nice bosses, man and woman, I don't know why God wanted me to test such a complicated man, he is not even complicated, he is a tyrant, a dictator. Either way, I didn't come here to make friends or have a guy so he can calm down. I answer him

_ I understood sir

_ Good. It's okay for the moment. I'll need the report from the last meeting. Thank you

I get up and go out. I even know that I will take the report where. If he wasn't so nervous I was going to ask him stuippp questions ie there are frustrating bosses yeuchhh. I go into the machine to look for the last report, see several and I choose the one that is two weeks old is the most recent. I print it out and bring it in a lettering.

_ that's it sir

I am standing to hand him the signature he does not even manage me. My hand is even hurting me already. He lifts his head and looks at me

_ you will stop it all day or you will drop it off

Idiot you can't ask me to drop stuippp. I drop off and get ready to go out he's holding me back

_ a moment

I turn around hoping I haven't made a mistake on the report

_ you will see the accountant's secretary ask her what she has in progress for work and give it to you for you to take over.

_ OK sir. That's all ?

_ do you want something else ?

_ no sir

I get out very quickly and go to sit in my chair. If he thinks he's going to discourage me he's wrong, I'm a lioness who doesn't give up easily. I remember that I do not even know the accounting department, too bad I will find myself I can not get lost in this establishment.

Carla gets up and goes out to do the errand.

In the meantime at Monsieur Oxford.

I was too lazy this morning to go to work, but I had to since I have a new assistant. I hope she will hold on. At the slightest mistake it is already the door that I have been very generous in giving it a chance despite the incident yesterday morning. Another will not have. That's why I want to be reassured that I haven't recruited a nutcase. She still has the courage to have accepted this position or she thinks that I did not recognize it you have to be stupid to think about that. I am not mean nor am I a dictator but I like respect, I like to deal with people who know what they want. Not wanting my employees to see each other intimately is very serious and I care about it. Either way, they know it. At the slightest suspicion of frequentation of this kind I open an investigation and if the suspicions are proven I put you out. I was treated as old-fashioned so much the better it's my discipline. This morning I am on edge my ex wife calls me since about a problem at the school of my children. I'm going to go there during the break and if it's nothing serious she will hear me. She often turns up the blows to extract money from me, her new mougou has nothing left, she hasn't seen anything yet. I have to think about getting them back next year, the eldest is already 8 years old and his brother 6 years old I think I can take care of it. Bob enters with documents for signature.

_ It's okay ? You came a little late today, he told me

_ yes I'm fine I didn't want to wake up this morning lazy and this ex-woman witch who keeps calling me

_ she wants what

_ I must go to the children's establishment to respond to a summons

_ She can not do it?

_ imagine that not his best job is to spread his feet

Bob laughed to death. he might not have wanted to sit down but there he sat down unwittingly. I collect the files to sign. He is still laughing

_ what did I say that was so funny. Isn't that the truth?

_ my brother, I know that the woman there has done you a lot of harm but pass the sponge. You cannot mention it without insulting it, some will think that you are still in love when it is a grudge. Too much grudge kills ohh watch out for stroke

_ don't worry my heart is in great shape ... Here are the duly signed documents. You will make a copy for the accounting

_ Okay. Miss Noah started?

_ yes she is in accounting. I hope she will take the beat

_ if you do not terrorize her yes she will endure

_ I don't intend to make her run away but she has to learn good manners and if for that I have to be a little harsh I would be. You imagine if an important gentleman came to meet me or even they can meet in a place outside the company and she poses this kind of village behavior, and tomorrow he comes to find her here you imagine the image that he will have me? Me, Mr. Oxford, my assistant is crazy - he bursts out laughing - you can imagine what it will cause in our reports, oh no I have to get her back on track and if the task is difficult well we will go our separate ways there are plenty of graduates out there hoping to have a place like hers

_ you then you will never cease to surprise me. Well I'm leaving

_ arrives at the accounts you ask him to call my lawyer to make an appointment for tomorrow

_ she already has her number?

_ but she's going to look, I'm not going to teach her her job

_ hahahaha okay you're the boss

He went out. Bob forwarded the message to Carla, she got the lawyer's number from the accountant's secretary, without wasting time she made an appointment. All day long she has only gone up and down, going from office to office, gathering information that her boss is struggling to give her. She is obliged to inquire from left to right. Very attentive by nature, she quickly finds herself in the many tasks she has to perform. She didn't even have time to go downstairs to eat or even look at her phone, she was so immersed in work. It is 6 p.m. when his phone rings. It's Moussa she picks up

_ Yes

_ still busy?

_ uhhh yes and no I should already be coming home stuippp

_ what is preventing you

_ my boss is still there, he does not even act as if he is going to return. You're done ?

_ yes I will pick you up so where well we meet somewhere you know I miss you a lot

_ let's meet in a restaurant I'm very hungry

_ ok I go ahead and give you the address

_ that works

She hangs up, uttering an ouff of distress.

'' I'm really tired I finished my tasks for today but it's not over, I'm not going to finish this today I'm tired and he didn't even help me. Oh go up there, go left, go down right stuippp. Now he doesn't want to go home, I can't go before he does, or do I ask him if I can go home? No it's a bad idea the first day you have to follow the instructions. It is after having received my CDI that I could allow myself excesses. I follow the sounds of the keys, it's as if he closes his door, I follow the footsteps in the hallway he has just passed. I'll see if he's left by opening the door to my office, he's not there. He leaves without telling me stuippp. I hurry to put my things away, I got the keys to my office at the accounts, so I close tight and I go in the elevator. Being there I receive the message from Moussa he sends me the address of the restaurant. I didn't want to see him but I need the money. He has to give me the rent money, yes I lied to him that we are renting this apartment, but we are not. Sometimes he helps me, sometimes he gives me half, I have to juggle like that or I'm not going to get out of it. I arrive on the way and take a motorbike I do not have time to take a taxi it's rush hour too many traffic jams. In a few minutes I arrived at the restaurant, I see him sitting on a table with his beautiful hair which always makes me crack. He has brown hair. He's still looking at the menu. I go to him and sit and exclaim

_ phew finally free

He watches me with one eye and measures me

_ what you are not proud to see me.

He drops the menu

_ if I'm very proud ... but you run away from me I don't know why

_ that's not it you know my problems.

I take the menu to place my order I'm hungry all he says is his problem

_ hummm.

He calls on the waitress who comes to take our orders. I also take a natural juice. I have to ask him for my money

_ how did you do with my thing

_ what is this?

_ the rent nor the lessor is already looking at me a kind

_ stuippp you are always like that when I need you you are not there but when you need me I run

_ ah let it run for nothing? Don't you like it too? I know that soon you will tell me that your wife came from the north or you will even go there to get married I look forward to it you are here you confuse me

_ I promised you marriage?

_ hopefully not

_ and what is the Problem

_ that means I'm right. In short, it's not a problem, are you going to help me then?

_ see you this weekend?

With him that's it it's the exchange because he must help me he must recover otherwise anyway it is not to displease me I need strong sensations

_ there is no problem

_ Great.

He pulls out 30 miles and gives me while the rent is 50 miles

_ that's all ?

_ you will have the rest this weekend

_ you and blackmail eh.

_ I want you to come with me to a party like the last time

_ oh yes if this kind of party I'm up for ... I really like your ceremonies, we eat meat with good couscous.

The maid comes to deposit our dishes. I fall on it like a former prisoner. Moussa looks at me and laughs, I don't behave, he knows me well

_ How is your father?

_ It's okay. He wants to work but I oppose I don't want him to run out

_ your salary cannot be enough for you, you have to let it work

_ no. He'll do tough jobs, he doesn't need that. If it's an easy job like you don't carry heavy loads, yes I can take it. Let me eat

_ OK have good meal

_ thanks honey.

He looks at me badly and I laugh. He doesn't like it when I call him that..we eat quietly while chatting. I told you that he will soon be going to look for his wife in the north when I brought up the subject. He did not dissuade me. One good day I would find myself without a gar without a mougou without any damage to me. after the meal he took me home I stopped at the pharmacy to take my father's remedies. A box is 32 miles and it lasts a month when it ends I get sick. With the money he gave me I was able to get some so much the better. I am reassured. Tomorrow is another day, another fight, another challenge to take up. Let's go!

TO BE CONTINUED...