08/22/05
Amidst the clattering of keyboards on the 7th floor in one beauty company office, an unprompted rendition of soft to harshly phlegmatic coughing has been heard since the start of the rainy season. Apparently, with the resilience of some strains mutating in some of the cosmetics/fragrance & toiletries brand group, a super flu was born and has since been ruthlessly attacking workaholics in the Marketing department.
Victims of this super flu succumb to high fevers, incessant coughing, headaches, and the ability to see numbers floating on the space between their eyeglasses and the computer screens. Some variation include mistakes in category simulations for the overall gross margin percentage (usually a –0.1pt deviation from plan), or inclusion of a long dead product in the campaign brochure, the effects of which are horrendous and too dreadful to include in this report. Dr. Calayan, the medico-legal adviser of this column, says that although the sickness brought upon by the microbes do not pledge death or long-term disability, they would guarantee an indefinite period of sneezing, wheezing and green phlegm-expulsion for the sufferer.
No cure has been found; nevertheless, the company doctor had strongly advised the intake of three consecutive sick leaves with antibiotics that was sure to relieve those who have been attacked by the virus. Regrettably, the floor has been populated by confirmed Type A (perfection and work-obsessive) individuals; there was no way the doctor’s recommendation was going to be taken seriously, as there was the usually endless list of reports to be generated for the management’s use yesterday morning.
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