Jackson, working as a contractor, is used to different bosses and different jobs all the time. But nobody has been worse than Steve. While trying to impress the staff at one site, Steve has Jackson doing multiple food runs, always saying that the company will take up all the expenses and reimburse him. But that doesn’t happen, so he has to teach Steve a lesson.
Working as a contractor, you get used to different jobs, different bosses, and the occasional bit of chaos. But this job? Wow. This one had a twist I didn’t see coming.
I was working on a project in some backwoods county facility, so remote that it felt like you’d driven off the map completely. The boss, Steve, had this great idea.
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“Let’s get some tacos for breakfast,” he said. “Like for the entire staff.”
“Okay, not a problem,” I said.
The staff had been letting us use their equipment, among other things, for free all week. And it seemed simple enough. He gave me the green light to handle it by myself.
