Down With the King of the South by Diamond Johnson

Author:Diamond Johnson [Johnson, Diamond]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Leo Sullivan Presents
Published: 2019-04-30T04:00:00+00:00

Jashae Johnson

My boss was such a fuckin’ asshole. Everyone knew how important today was for me. My baby was playing in the championship game, and literally five minutes before it was time for me to clock out, this lonely, miserable bitch decides to have a mandatory staff meeting. I loved what I did, it paid well, I was doing something that I actually liked, but if I ever decided that I wasn’t going to come back here and work anymore, it was going to be because I had enough of this woman’ shit.

Her name was Ms. Hendrix, and I felt like her old ass didn’t like me. She rode me harder than any other employee. Her deciding that she wanted to have a meeting this evening felt like a personal attack on me. Of course, I wanted to be defiant and just leave, but that would give her the satisfaction of firing me since I knew that’s what she wanted to do, but she wouldn’t dare because she knew that I exceeded what I was supposed to do for the company.

I sat in a room with almost twenty of my coworkers at a long, rectangular table, with my legs crossed, tapping my pen on the notebook that was in front of me because I was so anxious to leave. The game was set to start in ten minutes, and I wasn’t there. I worked smack dab in the middle of downtown Miami, so the traffic was going to be ridiculous getting to my son’s school.

“Ms. Johnson, is there some other place that you would rather be? Your leg is constantly bouncing. I don’t know if you noticed it, but you’ve been tapping on that notebook with that pen for the past ten minutes, and you’re staring off into space, proving to me that you’re not listening to anything that I’m saying. Does this meeting not interest you?” Mrs. Hendrix, my boss, said.

She had to be in her mid-sixties. She was a beautiful, black woman, but her attitude and her over the top dominance made her so ugly. I must have fucked her man in another lifetime because she just tolerated me because she knew that there wasn’t another employee there that could do half of what I did for this company.

“Ms. Hendrix, to be very honest with you, there is someplace else that I would rather be. My baby boy is playing in his senior championship game this evening, and this meeting that you called at the last minute is stopping me from being there. This is the last time that I will get to see my boy play high school basketball in my life, so if tapping my leg, hitting my pen, and me staring off into space annoys you, I’m sorry, but this is how I’m trying to calm down my nerves,” I said.

She looked at me long and hard before she laid down the paper that was in her hands.

“We’ll continue this meeting tomorrow. Good luck to your son,” she said, and I all but ran out of the meeting room.

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