Return (Coming Home #1) by Meli Raine

Author:Meli Raine [Raine, Meli]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Prosaic Press
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirteen

Day two at work and no Claudia by lunch time. Whew. Not that I’m afraid of her. She’s not exactly the type to inspire fear. Disgust? Sure. But fear is too strong an emotion.

While the information technology folks set me up with all my different permissions to access the different systems for accounting, student records, and office supply orders, I play with my email.

My signature line reads:

Carrie Myerson

Project Coordinator

Dean of Arts & Sciences

IT told me to set it up that way. I notice as I read the emails that start to trickle in that everyone else has initials after their name. B.A. or B.S. for the administrative workers, like me. M.A. or M.S. for the higher-level administrators. Ph.D. and M.D. and J.D. for professors and deans.

The president of the university, J. Roth Murchison, has a D.Phil and an SJD, whatever that means. Something about graduating from Oxford University in Britain for the D.Phil and Harvard Law School for the SJD. Someday I’ll know what that means, though.

Meanwhile, I need my little B.A. Two more years. Just two more years.

So far, my only contact with Dean Landau has been through email today. He left me a long list of places to schedule meetings and luncheons, and some receipts to file for reimbursement. The person who used to work at this job, Carol, left me an enormous binder of instructions.

I don’t need to figure anything out, because Carol is a goddess. Everything is color-coded tabs and printed details. She left me copies of every form you could imagine, with specific steps for how to complete everything.

I find the expense reimbursement form, make a copy, complete it for the dean, and make another copy for our office’s records. Then I check Carol’s handbook and send it to Accounts Payable.

Done. I own this job.

I got this.

Dean Landau told me in one of his emails to feel free to take time to hand-deliver paperwork I would normally send through inter-office mail, so I can meet people. Match faces to names. Snatching the expense form out of the mail box, I decide to walk it over. Might as well meet whoever processes the expense reports.

This is boring already. I like boring. Boring feels great. As I walk out of the building’s doors and into the bright sunshine, I smile. My sunglasses slide on and I’m walking. A quick glance to the grass to watch out for stray football games. None. Coast is clear.

I’m getting paid to walk freely between the buildings in the late-August sunshine.

Now this is the life. Not sitting in front of a three-hundred-per-hour check processing computer for eight hours every night, back hurting, body out of sync because of midnight shift. I work eight to five with an hour lunch. I earn vacation time. Yates University pays my health and dental insurance.

I even have a retirement account.

And those golden tuition benefits. After I drop off the form at Accounts Payable, I’ll wander over to Human Resources to see if I can take classes in a couple weeks.

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