3WW Poetry Jam and Dverse
the office dragon
triggers a chain of events
like an earthquake
best climb the tallest coconut palm
away from the flames
getting a birds eye view
of the mayhem at a safe distance
delinquent in her duties
always blaming others
she trawls for new victims
preying on hapless employees
to feed her insatiable appetite
omg it's a hairy nevus
needs an intake of fresh meat
regularly to convince herself
that she is a sentient being
hangs the old carcasses
up on a coat hook behind the office door
as trophies
to a tarnished femme fatale
well past her use by date
Heh heh...I take it she doesn't read your blog! (P.S. Thanks for the rescue, darlin'--somehow I knew I could count on you!)
ReplyDeleteAny time Babe. Blow torching icebergs is my speciality:)
ReplyDeleteSee! If that coconut palm could talk, we'd get the inside scoop on her!
ReplyDeleteWe already got talkin' coconut palms here..no use..this banshee can talk her way out a sunburn!
DeleteSounds like a typical day in business...especially with some co-workers. Fun!
ReplyDeleteYes every office has its psychopath!
DeleteA safe distance is often the best place. Made me smile, so true to life
ReplyDeleteyou have describe this so perfectly. Makes you wonder how these people get in power doesn't it?
ReplyDeleteThe office dragon is hilarious!! What a chaotic office!!
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I've known her too!
ReplyDeleteHahahahahaha! You are wicked!
ReplyDeleteI came within a hair's breadth of saying that was really, really good! :-)
I knew this would have the few remaining strands of your hair
Deletestanding on end:)
The folk you write about love to try to have you by the short and curlies...
DeleteReally . Pray do tell, Cosmo.A luscious lad like yourself must keep an eye out for the office sexual predator I suppose:)
DeleteIt's the only cross I bear but it is a heavy one. :-/
DeleteSo I believe...some wines just seem to get better with age:)
DeleteBiting and potent. Enjoyed.
ReplyDeleteThanks Tonya.
DeleteThere's always someone like that in the workplace.
ReplyDeleteConjures the possible horror of office life perfectly.
ReplyDeleteSeen these type of monsters in the office! They may be the boss or even a co-worker. To cover up their weaknesses they bring headaches to others! Nicely Rall!
ReplyDeleteHank
Bet you are pleased you are retired!
DeleteYou aced all three challenges!!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks!!!
DeleteI think I have seen and fled from the likes of her ~
ReplyDeleteHave a good week ~
This is not my story Grace. I work from home. My boss brings me tea every morning in a bone China tea cup and I create my own conditions of work...yes it always helps to sleep with the Boss:)
DeleteShe has clearly been promoted beyond her capabilities and is worried lest it become obvious so must bully others to assert her superiority. I've met a few!
ReplyDeleteAnd they always thrive and never lose!
DeleteOh the eternal office dragon! Such a clever bird's eye view here.
ReplyDeleteThanks Peggy!
DeleteOh I've known dragon lady bosses like that. I love your sense of humor. Yes, safest place at the top of a coconut tree, where you can lob coconuts at her if she spots you!
ReplyDeleteOh, you are a mischief maker! I love it!
ReplyDeleteOh I know...fear not..I am far too classy to send you photos of my naked body in an sms message...the latest fun office fad harassment technique practised by imbeciles, I believe!
DeleteNone of the decent people that I know would ever do a thing like that!
DeleteI read about it in a magazine article ... evidently it is not only men who are perpetrators of these offences.
DeleteOh, no way! You can't really be serious!
DeleteI know we have been making light of this but I have known of two people whose lives have been ruined by work place harassment. They are sensitive cerebral types and one of them a brilliant scientist never worked again. She is now an agraphobic rarely leaves the house and became a visual artist ... makes a living this way. Sartre was right "L'enfer .c'est les autres"
DeleteYikes! I knew many of them back in my corporate days--Well penned and as usual delightful with your keen sense of humor. :-) (trawls for new victims-loved that!)
ReplyDeleteThanks SaraV,it is amazing how many commenters are so familiar with this scourge of the work place!
DeleteAhhh ..... the pen is mightier than the sword. Love it.
ReplyDeletexxx
Red dirt?...this has got to be a sheila from red dirt country Northern Territory...just tell me one thing. You are not a camel driver are you?
DeleteHaa...a sheila, yes; an Aussie, no.
DeleteCamels? Who's got camels?
I heard they've gone feral in your country.
Red dirt american: Oklahome and Georgia.
Somehow I feel ridiculously proud that I was mistaken for an aussie :)
xxx