It seems she has taken our writer A in Hometown to the dark side, perhaps advising A with how to get a raise from our skin flint owner.
It appears the owner will cough up cash if you happen to be a pretty female.
This is not new to A or even her, if the gossips can be trusted, a sad henpecked man at home, the owner supposedly has made up for it here in the office, following in the footsteps of the previous owner in the wild days of the 1980s when anything goes.
It seems A has managed to get a raise within her first month of employment.
What her rich fiancé thinks about it, I don’t know.
But A’s special assignment includes writing a column for a man who is likely to run for mayor and who she covers, a distinct conflict of interest nobody else in the office seems to notice.
This outside influence on an insider in our office strikes me as too closely aligned to what RR tried to do.
Maybe it is purely coincidence? Perhaps such activities have always gone on, such as T, who worked in our office when I got back from a writing job in Bloomfield. T apparently was working with Tony I, a notorious mob guy in Secaucus. T fed Tony I details of what I was working on in exchange for him letting T getting on the inside with the Secaucus gang.
Tony I even bragged about it to me, telling me later, “I took one for the team,” as if T was a little too below his usual standards.
Fortunately, our former temporary boss is the only one not taken in by A, calling her “a drama queen” and not very good writer.
“She’s not the right fit for Hometown,” he told me during a conversation yesterday.
But our former temporary boss is fed up with the whole office, and still hasn’t a clue as to why the owners hate him.
He suspects the owner may have someone pushed our former writer out, putting too much work on her for too little pay.
He still doesn’t understand how much in the dark the owner is about her leaving.
But then everybody thinks everybody else knows something they don’t when she is concerned.
A is a lot like her, which is one reason I suspect she and A are connected, only our former temporary boss is right about A, she’s no where near the writer she was, and never will be.
Just when I thought the New Year might provide light at the end of a very long and dark tunnel, it turns out it may just be more of the same, something to keep an eye on.
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