No one tells me anything around here, but that’s about to change, big time.
Ruben Nigh
Ruben Nigh has always felt left out at work.
“One day last year I was in the office alone for an hour before I realized it was the company retreat. No one told me. It was in the company newsletter, but I can’t log on and IT has been promising to fix it for a year. I asked everyone about the Christmas party, but everyone was like, really evasive. The day we were brought out by FaceBook people were saying ‘the rumors were true’. I never heard one rumor.”
Nigh’s questions to colleagues about their hours, working conditions and salary were regularly overlooked and unanswered.
But he had a plan to learn about what was going on. “Free food loosens lips. So I bought a broken vending machine that gave their money back with their goodies, and put it right outside my office where I could eavesdrop. Turns out everyone earns more than me.”Nigh was going to complain, but then opportunity called. His firm offered him a transfer to the Human Resource Office to manage incoming faxes. “It was a cut in salary, but the payoff will be worth it. Soon I’ll know how big the wage gap is around here, I’ll know who is on ‘probation’ and what for. People will flock to my office to learn what’s going on from me. And then, I’ll tell them to get lost. And maybe become an informant for the Springfield Gazette and Farmers Review. Assuming the fax I saw about closing the fax department is not true.”
