Who discovered doors for offices?

Phew, I am trembling, I am shaking to the innermost core, and I can’t stop shaking too- the matter is of no importance, I have been threatened- that too mortally.

Well if it was confined to me alone it would have been okay- not that I am the most courageous of guys, I am not, but at least it would have involved me alone. But this threat involves my poor family who had nothing to do with any of it. Now, no one can deny being affectionate towards ones family, okay we can act as if we don’t bother about them, but when it comes to brass- tacks, one’s own is one’s own, no amount of arguing would get us out of that one.

So here I am, unable to stop shaking, with no escape route in sight. The place I am in has a strange history too. People in my position have been attacked here previously……..

Is there such a place in the world in these times? Well there seems to be one at least….!

Oh I know, no one would be threatened by even the most callous of people without any cause. And viola! There is a cause. I called a guy back to duty because there was no one else to replace him. He was deputed for ‘other duty’ by me to make matters worse. My mistake in the first place, I should not have done such a thing at all!

He was angry of course (who can blame the poor fellow), he was building a new house of his own too and was probably wanted there. No, that was not the ‘other duty’ he was assigned, he was to assist in a survey. Well you know, sometimes we all do that too, we are human aren’t we? ‘No own house and all public office’ makes a guy dull. So all the guys in the world have to build their own houses in the course of their official duties!

Anyway in the course of the bustle of house building activity he seems to have forgotten to report back in the evening. Well that’s of little consequence too, who does such things these days, even the best of us does otherwise sometimes. It’s done mostly bona-fide, no harm intended. He would have reported to duty on the next day (probably). And I did not mind that.

Yet sadly I had the occasion to call the poor guy back for closing the office for the day. There was no one else to do that. He complained (he has every right to do that hasn’t he, who can deny that?). But I was without option, so I requested the guy to help me and I had worded it in the most polite of terms. He came and did what I asked.

Two days of preparatory time passed.

Then the union guys come.

And threatens me and the family, and they are dead serious about that. They name a place and ask me whether my family is staying there and they casually mention that there have been certain incidents in the office before.

I am frightened. You see, closing an office in time might even lead to ones and family’s detriment.

Shouldn’t I be shaking?