"Later," I said, and shut the door.
* * * *
"Yo, Theodore!" Paulie was one of the copier techs in my department.
"Yeah, man. What's up?" I asked, distracted by the spreadsheet on the screen in front of me.
"Can you take that service call at PharmaLite? I gotta go over to TechBotMe on River Street. Emergency."
Crap. Over the past month and a half, anytime a call came in from that company—which had happened a lot lately, for some reason—I sent one of my other guys over there to take care of it. But since Paulie now had an emergency and all the techs were busy, that left me to take the call. Wonderful. At least it was the middle of the day and I should be in and out, fast.