Female Editor of Online Blog Thing That Shall Go Unnamed: So…
Other Female Editor of Online Blog Thing That Shall Go Unnamed: So…
Hypothetical Performance Evaluee: I’ve been let go before. If that’s what this is, let’s just pull the Bandaid off, shall we?
FEOBTSGU: Gosh, no.
OFEOBTSGU: Whoah, hey. Nobody said let go. Only, well…
FEOBTSGU: We have, well, concerns.
OFEOBTSGU: The “Deliverance: The Musical” piece. I was so excited by the possibilities of that.
FEOBTSGU: Super-excited.
OFEOBTSGU: I guess I was just hoping it would go somewhere, you know?
HPE: I guess I felt like it did go somewhere. You know, like where you allow the reader to write the remainder in his or her mind?
OFEOBTSGU: There was, literally, no accompanying text.
HPE: There’s some precedence for that, I believe.
FEOBTSGU: That’s totally unfair.
HPE: Just saying. No judgment, just saying.
FEOBTSGU: We’d like you to start maybe generating ideas earlier in the week, such that you have time to flesh them out more fully.
OFEOBTSGU: We’re not questioning your creativity at all. That’s not what’s happening here.
HPE: Is there anything else? If there’s nothing else, I’d like to go have a drink and think about what I’m going to write tonight. You know, start fleshing out the evening’s work.
OFEOBTSGU: We don’t want this to be acrimonious.
HPE: Or maybe three drinks. Three fleshing-out drinks before I begin my evening’s work of making sure the reader gets the point of the piece, not leave anything to chance where point-getting is concerned.
FEOBTSGU: We really do like having you on board.
HPE: Seven, tops. Seven fleshing-out drinks to give myself a good and rolling start to my unpaid work on the–wait, what are we calling this again?
Other Hypothetical Performance Evaluee (Popping head into office): Sorry to interrupt, but are y’all about ready for me?
HPE: No, no. I was just on my way out. It’s all you.
