You KNOW There Won’t Be Good News When…

Published by simon on May 14, 2008

Last month my head office had to retrench some staff due to specific reasons.

I wasn’t there, since i’m not stationed at the head office, but i figure the immediate superior or the HR manager would probably call the poor guy into the office and say, “i think you better sit down first…” or “You know the company’s not been doing well recently…”

You KNOW it’s not going to be good news when your boss starts with those lines.

Or when your girlfriend starts with “I think we need to talk…”

Or when the headmasters starts off with “it has come to my attention that…”

Or when the doctor tells you “How is your insurance plan?”

Or when my wife says to my daughter “tell daddy what happened in school today”.

Nope. it’s never good news. Because if it was good news, they tell you straightaway, without all this small talk.

Well i suppose it’s a lot better than my doctor saying, “If I were you, I wouldn’t start watching any new miniseries on TV, get my drift? Heheh…”

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Well, it wasn’t all bad news, my colleague got a decent severance package from the retrenchment. Nothing helps soothes the bad news like moolah. Lots of it.

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