The power is in the leg room
I have business class seating
behind my desk
in the drivers seat
On the side you sit on it's smooth and flat
no shelves, no leg room
no place to hold your stuff because you just come to sit
no place for a name plate, pens for signatures
you don't need a place to rest family photos
a mouse for clicking, or a phone to check messages
its not a destination , but a brief moment in front of my
desk and you're gone,
yesterday I posted a job
I am hiring a highly qualified individual to clean out machine gun nests that have appeared on the Eastern side of our fortified areas in Afghanistan,
Spanish speakers preferred, females wanted,
the day before, i sat on the wrong side of the desk,
the person who came for the job posting interviewed me instead, asked me how much I would work for, if I was good at attacking fortified soldiers who have confined themselves in spaces so tight sniper rifle fire could not penetrate, and if i could speak Spanish...
- Excerpt from Memoirs of an Assistant Manager
