Say Hi to uncle Bill will ya

The company i work for can sometimes be a boring place to be in between the hours of 8 to 5. Yeah really. Theres always someone rushing off to meeting room while clutching some xeroxed documents while faint laughter could be heard in between partitions when someone tells a bad joke that even zainframe wouldn't pull. Sad mfs. But after working here for 2 years, the boredom is almost immunising and often discarded by finding something interesting to keep myself busy with, besides eyeballing clara to try to catch her nipples through the braless crack through her unbuttoned top. They have that perfect erect shape, with standing pointy nipps like katie holmes'. Guys are always eyeballing her ans she knows it. Thats probably why she often ditches the bras.

The one thing i have grown to like doing during office hours is going to the office cafe on level 2 and having a coffee with a french dude from the french capital. I would do coffee upto sometimes 3 times a day with Hector, and we'd talk about expectations, work, relationships and life in our own countries. Often we'd talk for almost 1 hour in the cafe.

Hes been a good friend these last couple of months. Hector has worked here almost as long as i have, but our friendship started only 4 months ago after i got back from my asian holiday. I guess we were both too busy with work then to want to chill and bitch about the company. Hector was really a top class engineer with ground breaking skills in emerging technologies. He really knows his stuff. Often we would enter into deep conversations about technologies and how the company had failed in adopting it.

Then about 3 weeks ago over a coffee session, Hector told me that he'd tendered his resignation and was leaving at the end of Aug. I was devistated that my good friend was going away soon. To a better life i suspect. Who would i have my long coffee breaks with now? Who would i indulge in deep conversations about life and expectations with now? And who would i bitch about the company with every morning? My life would not be the same after hes gone. Words could not describe the dissappointment that went through me that evening. So i invited him and his gf over to the house for dinner on the weekend.

Hector arrived for dinner rather early that weekend. His gf was the most charming mancunian lass. Dinner was good. We chatted about lotsa things, but mainly how the company sucked and how it was a relief to jump jobs some place else.

"Have i told you where i'd be going?" asked Hector while i passed him the rice.

"No you haven't actually . .. where are you going mate?" i replied casually knowing that this guy was pretty secretive.

"Microsoft in redman .. but don't tell anyone in the office k." said Hector.

It turned out that they flew him out there for a weekend for the live interview some weeks ago and have recruited him to help work on their new product just launched last month. I was really happy for him, but yet dissapointed that i would have to find a new coffee mate. Good luck Hector. Say hi to uncle bill for me will ya.