Wrong Vampire

Walt is about as an obnoxious boss as you can have. For starters, he insists on calling everyone by their last name like we're in the military. And he blows everything out of proportion, big time. "Gotcha Walt, I'll look over and correct the errors" I said.

Of course that wasn't enough, so Walt adds, "Jackson, it's not the weekend yet, you still got an hour left, so take some pride in your work before I find someone who does!"

"I'm on it, won't happen again" I tell Walt, hoping he walks back to his office and lucky for me he does.

Charles, whose desk is fairly close to mine, waits till Walt walks away before looking at me as whispers, "what an ass."

Charles is a nice guy I guess, but totally clueless when it comes to web work. He probably makes more mistakes than the entire floor combined, but since he was the starting QB at the same high school Walt went to (some 20 years later than Walt), he could do no wrong.

I just laughed, resigned to the fact that I have to deal with Walt being an ass and talking about him won't make it any better. I open the page Walt was referring to, and comb it over looking for the mistake. After like 10 minutes I find it. For the date, I used dashes (-), instead of slashes (/). "What the fuck" I mumbled under my breath.

I resubmit the page and within a few minutes I get an e-mail from Walt saying, "much better, let's work on getting it right the first time."

The rest of the day was pretty uneventful. Walt didn't leave his office, which everyone was happy with, and when five o'clock hit, we all left the office before Walt could find something else to bitch about. I grabbed my jacket and headed to the elevator, when Charles came running up behind me, "Dave, you still coming out tonight?"

I sighed and answered him saying, "I don't know, after a week of that Walt, I wouldn't mind just heading home."

"That's why you NEED to come out, to get that ass hole out of your head" Charles said. He could tell by the look on my face I was unconvinced. "Look Dave, I'm going, Seth and Rick are as well and even Tina and Jessica are gonna hang for a while. Come out with us, get a few drinks and you may even find someone to take home, someone to work you frustrations out on," Charles said with a slick smile.