minutes go by

I have to leave for work in about ten minutes.  I was getting kind of lax and well, really, the traffic is intensifying here lately and has added to my tardiness.  So I have resolved to leave earlier to restore my reputation. 

We have an "interim manager" but we figure that she is becoming permanent.  She is older... in her 70s, I think, and shrewd, demanding, fussy, nosey, overbearing, incompetent, buzzing, burbling... with a voice that grates on you and a way about her that brings everyone down.  There's no loyalty to us. That espouses disloyalty to the system.

I speak up because I have the least to lose.  Being fired might be the best thing that ever happens to me, but you really have to be blatantly oafish to lose your job.  My co-workers, though, fear to speak up.  There is a way to present things to her, with directness and sincerity.  The problem is, because they are regular employees, everything they do is weighed and measured and they are expected to dance a Tarantella besides.  That is why I think about a new job every week.  Notice I am not out prowling for one regularly, but a different situation is looking like a better and better idea.

Now I have to stop and put on my shoes and get out the door.  I have yet begun to speak on this topic.