Welcome to Masaki Incorporate. It is the creation of the internationally known Yosho Masaki. This company has made a stronghold in the world's economy. On the outside this company appears to be the model of modern industry. On the inside�. Well that's another subject all together. This is a look into the common goings on in this building, which shows office life can be just as screwed up as life in general.
We start off with everyone's favorite Tenchi. He is just starting his day off, by getting out of bed and get dressed. It's a Tuesday and He'd rather not go to work, but he'd have to do that or get kicked out of his apartment. Also, the student-loan people are known for breaking body parts if you don't pay up. After he was completely prepared he got inside his Yugo and made his first decision of the day. It was freezing outside and he wanted to turn his heater on. If he turned his heater on, he ran the chance of his car exploding; or he could just drive to work cold. As usual he picked the latter of the two. At least traffic wasn't too bad. There was only an hour long hold up on the freeway.
When he got to the office, he was still a bit sleepy. Tenchi managed to make it to his cubical, where he immediately plopped down and turned on his computer. After his dinosaur of a computer logged in, he went into the companies' Intranet to checked his e-mails. His eye began to twitch as he saw that he had a total of 1760 messages, and 1500 of them were marked urgent. He went ahead and opened the first one:
From: Ryoko@masaki.com
Date: Monday 8, 1999
Subject: (no subject)
Reply To: Ryoko
Time: 4:00 pm
Hey, do you know a 10 letter word(s) for "No need for up?"
He closed the message and immediately erased it and the other 1499 messages that were marked urgent. The remaining 260 message were from the FFML. Tenchi usually reads that stuff on his lunch break. Unfortunately they were all Ranma fics, Ranma spam, or Ranma rants so he erased all of them too. "Why are there so many fics with the same story line. You'd think Ranma was the only anime ever made. I wish Pioneer, would make something about swordfighters or space invaders. Maybe a story with both sword fighting and space invader? That's a love story too. Nah, that's just plain silly." he mumbled out to himself. With that done he looked at the stack of papers next to him and sighed as he began to work on them.
After a few minutes passed, the full effect of exhaustion hit him. His head slowly drifted into his keypad. At that point Sasami came up and took a hold of his hand. She inserted an I.V. into his wrist. Tenchi immediately sprung back to life and looked toward her.
"Thanks Sasami. Hey, what is this anyway."
"Coffee Mr. Tenchi. It works better if you just inject it into your bloodstream. And you don't have any chance of getting any on your shirt."
"Hmm� Could you put in another pack of sugar? And you don't have to call me mister. Just call me Tenchi."
"Yes sir, Mr. Tenchi"
"Never mind� Has Ryoko showed up yet?"
"Not yet. When she arrives I'll let you know."
"How about HER?" he said as a slight look of fear came upon his face.
Sasami closed her eyes and began to concentrate, "I sense pain and suffering on the floor above us."
"Ah� So SHE is in. I guess I better get that report done quick"
As Sasami walked off, Tenchi thought to himself, "How could someone be so cute and happy at this time in the morning. It's not humanly possible." Sasami continued on her way. She was heading down to the mailroom. When she got there the clerk greeted her.
"Hello Sasami."
"Hello Ms. Kiyone. How much do you have for me today?"
"Plenty� I hope you don't mind, if I dump everything on you. I have to get to my other job."
"That's okay, how many jobs are you working now."
"To many� But I have to do that if I want to get my student-loan paid off before the end of this century. You know those people will break your legs if you don't pay up."
Sasami grinned at what Kiyone said, then a wave of fear hit her. "Is any of this stuff for HER?"
"Unfortunately, yes� SHE has some, so you must go to HER."
"Kiyone I'm scared of HER."
"You're not alone. Just try not to make eye contact. Who knows� SHE may be in a good mood today.
As soon as she said that, a man came running down the stairs screaming.
"SHE FIRING ANYONE NAMED STEVE!!!"
Kiyone and Sasami looked at him run through the mailroom, and then the looked back at each other. Both of them had a giant sweet drop on their heads. Kiyone slowly spoke out to the frighten intern, "You see, you have nothing to worry about. Your name is Sasami, not Steve." "Lucky me� Poor Steve," replied Sasami.
Sasami gathered the mail and started up to the most hated office in the entire building. On the way she bumped into Ryoko who was sneaking in, due to her lateness. She walked over and greeted her.
"Hello, Ms. Ryoko."
"Shh� Not so loud. How late am I today?
"Let's see� You're 2 hours and 38 minutes late today."
"Yes� I beat yesterday's time. Who knows? I might make it here on time someday."
"Hmm� Mr. Tenchi is looking for you."
"Really� I was just thinking about him. I hope he doesn't have anything for me to do. Hey, do you want to do me a little favor Sasami?"
"Well� I'm a little busy right now. And I'm supposed to be�"
Before she could finish speaking, Ryoko dropped a stack of papers on top of her. "Thanks Sasami, I really appreciate this. I just need you to go over these and check for any mistakes, and I'll let Tenchi know that I'm here for you. Thanks again!!!"
"But� But� But� Oh well." Ryoko had already took off before Sasami could stop her. She was quickly walking to her cubical. The work seemed to double for Sasami, with ever stop she made. With her workload now three times what it already was she continued up the floors.
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On the executive floor, in the companies' main office sits its founder and CEO. He was speaking on the phone with the president of a company that he is doing business with. He was exhibiting his usual cutthroat manner. You could only feel for the person that on the other end of the phone that was being reduced to a spineless piece of thrash.
[Look!!! I don't care about any of the family problems you're having right now. You have a contract with me that I demand you honor. If you dare to break that contract, I will be sure to destroy your company. You can have your silly Tekken thing at any time, but you're working for me right now. HEIHACHI MISHIMA, DO YOU HEAR ME?!!] {slam the phone on the hook}
The door to his office slowly opened and Yoshu's new secretary stuck her head in. She completely entered and walked up in front of his desk.
"Hello, my name is Kiyone and I'll be�"
Before she could finish, Yoshu stood up and walked over to her. "I'm glad you've made it here. I have some work for you to do."
"Ah� Yes Sir. But before I start, could you tell me about your last secretary?
"What do you mean?"
"Well, I was just wondering. This job pays great, but I heard a rumor that she couldn't take it anymore went nuts. I also heard another that there might have been some foul play."
"Hmm� You've heard the stories. That is very unfortunate. You see there was no suicide or murder. My last secretary left because she found the work too difficult."
"What's so hard about typing up a few documents and getting coffee."
"That is only part of your duties. You're also expected to help maintain order between my family members that are up here. You know of my daughter already"
"I've heard of her. Who else up here is related to you?"
"My daughter is the only one that works up here, and every now and again my wife stops by. Unfortunately, my daughter doesn't approve of her stepmother. So it is your job to keep my wife away from my daughter. That way everyone is happy."
"It doesn't sound to difficult. Hey, when does your wife usually come by."
"She should be here now." Just as he said that, the doors of his office opened and a lady began to enter. For some strange reason, Kiyone felt an emotion of dread and loathing. She never met this person before, but she had this gut feeling that something was not right.
"Hello, Honey. I missed you so much. You know that I can't exist without you by my side."
"Oh, how's my lil' wuddle snuggle bear. Did you have fun spending all of my money today?"
"Don't I always."
Yoshu walked over to his wife and looked toward Kiyone, whom was staring back at the two of them in a severe state of shock. She couldn't believe that, this old man could be married to someone so young. He was practically robbing the cradle. At the same time she couldn't shake the feeling that something was very wrong with this lady.
"Kiyone, I would like to introduce you to my lovely wife, Mihoshi."
"I'm� I'm� I'm pleased to met you."
"Thank you. I think we're going to be good friends already. Yes, I feel like were going to be FRIENDS FOREVER!!!"
Kiyone couldn't speak as her only sign of motion was the twitching of her face. The stale air was broken be the sound of someone opening the office door. There entered the most feared person in the entire company. She walked up and stared at the lot of them.
(To Be Continued)
Come on, I've got to sleep sometimes...
The comedy is starting off slow, I MEAN FOR IT TO BE THIS WAY. So before i get the firey replies, just give me some time to send the next part. I'm busy with Mid-terms that are slowing me up.
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