Humbug (2015)
“Quin Flint, Skinflint.
Haven’t you noticed that no one comes to ask you for anything if they can possibly help it?
The words circled in my head as I walked home, my hands thrust deep in my pockets against the cold.
…it’s as though you think we’re asking for money out of your own pocket or something… Was I really that unpopular with my colleagues?
I told myself I didn’t care. So what if I’d offended them by asking a few reasonable questions about their expenses forms. Did they expect me to appro...ve anything they put in front of me? Grant any leave request? Would I really be doing my job properly if I didn’t scrutinise these things? But even as I tried to justify my actions to myself, I recognised, with a sick feeling, that Rob’s words were true. I had recognised the truth of them as surely as though he’d held a mirror up to me and I’d seen my own face.
Lost in my own thoughts, I jumped when I suddenly heard a new voice calling my name.
“Quin! Quin, wait up!”
A new voice, but an oh-so-familiar one.MoreLess
Haven’t you noticed that no one comes to ask you for anything if they can possibly help it?
The words circled in my head as I walked home, my hands thrust deep in my pockets against the cold.
…it’s as though you think we’re asking for money out of your own pocket or something… Was I really that unpopular with my colleagues?
I told myself I didn’t care. So what if I’d offended them by asking a few reasonable questions about their expenses forms. Did they expect me to appro...ve anything they put in front of me? Grant any leave request? Would I really be doing my job properly if I didn’t scrutinise these things? But even as I tried to justify my actions to myself, I recognised, with a sick feeling, that Rob’s words were true. I had recognised the truth of them as surely as though he’d held a mirror up to me and I’d seen my own face.
Lost in my own thoughts, I jumped when I suddenly heard a new voice calling my name.
“Quin! Quin, wait up!”
A new voice, but an oh-so-familiar one.MoreLess
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