Balzeros

Seventeen approvals pending. Posting this photo only because the HR lead told me to.

• HR Team LeaderI keep telling you to relax your face. You'll need this for your next ID photo.
  BalzerosI already have an ID photo. The one from my first year is sufficient.
• Perpetual Assistant ManagerI've seen that first-year photo. The expression hasn't changed at all.

Three agenda items, two hours. The whiteboard stays up because erasing it starts the next quarter.

• HR Team LeaderYou dragged the meeting out two hours just to say that?
  BalzerosA meeting ends when the agenda ends. The agenda simply hasn't ended.
• Perpetual Assistant ManagerThat whiteboard was already sitting right there the year I made assistant manager.
  HR Team LeaderIf you start on that story, the meeting hits three hours.

Standardizing pantry microwave time at one minute thirty seconds. Any longer and the coffee scorches.

• HR Team LeaderThat's not a number you get without burning a few cups first.
  BalzerosMeasured directly.
• New EmployeeNoting that down. One minute thirty seconds.