Coffee-Maker – drip drips
As coffee-blenders…zip zips
Brought my morning sippy-cup
For a quick zip from your caftan mug.
I don’t need a lot
Just a snippy-zippy single shot
To start the day and awaken my mind,
Speed my pace - fall not behind.
There’s much to accomplish and much to do
Just takes a minute to heap a brew!
Of all rounded beans, coffee beans are the best
Add some chai for a zest
Sipping a sip from my sippy-cup
My slumbering eyes do wake up!
Oozing comfort warms my throat
Warms my soul like a coat
A Rush of kinetic energy electrify
Procrastination and sluggishness desensitize
A sudden burst to run a race
Productivity produces a rhythmic pace
Word-clutters arise like the morning sun
Time for work…Time for fun!
Coffee certainly is a legal drug!
I’m all wired-up - though unplugged -
From one little zippy drip
Of a coffee sip
From the grinded drug
Poured into my sipping-mug…?•
Busy as a bee
Sticky as a notepad
Ending at roadside.
company memos are flowing out
escaping like fireflies in July
overly communicative
no confidences now
leaking information
losing credibility and integrity
hoping for likeability
worlds worst employee
no confidentiality
lack of professionalism
she has put our company at risk
jeopardizes our future and her own
He is a quick learner, his brain is mighty.
Chet learns swiftly, and he is completely tidy.
He is not hasty, does not make irrational decisions.
Buying this story hook, line and sinker from his Uncle Missions.
The new employee calls in sick weekly.
On Monday this week.
On Tuesday last week.
On Wednesday the week before.
We wonder why he does not get into trouble.
Until we hear him call the boss
“Uncle Bradley”
Quick to forget the Off-Duty Grant
That makes bosses not rant
Easily treating An Observer,
To a levity of A Grieving Server
All stops are boldly pulled out
Like irritable errors struck out,
All restrictions kicked aside
Or left to their time bide!
It’s a being who has glimpsed obligations
Vain Boss would never understand,
Their delayed handling with implications
He might at last not withstand.
One doesn’t tears check for a Great Symbol
While on Earth virtuous and humble;
He who had to part with a noble life,
Forthwith ending a worthy strife …
Liable to be admonished
And sometimes stiffly punished
For a daring of The Bottlenecks
That a good file wrecks
Is the Employee in bereaved time
Not bothered that office clocks also chime.
In my little corner of earth
I shall work and toil
But at the bell, my day is done
I am no longer loyal.
Trade in my chains for currency
For as long as I can fend
But Again, I will be in bondage
When the next work week begins
And so it goes
On and on
And on and on
Until I am old and frail
And no one will ever know
What stories I had to tell
The world will keep going
As will I, but with regret
That I didn't choose my own path
And instead followed the rest
keep your tags, your plans, your work, your rules,
I need them not.
Cause when I leave,
I will be free,
This slave will not be caught
new guy employee
schmaltzy sappy corny too
I am not fooled
Steve Job’s took away Job’s
If you’re looking for a guy approachably honest,
A man who will stand by his word,
If you want a guy who prefers to be happy,
And won’t brag about how much he’s earned,
Treats colleagues at work with respect and regard,
Isn’t selfish or arrogant or mean,
Who lives for the good things enjoyed in our life,
Is proud to be healthy and clean,
Then I know a guy who fits in this mould,
He’s confident and clever and fun,
He can think of a solution for every small issue,
He’ll finish what he has begun,
He’s a man I know well, dependable and driven,
He’d be a valued and true employee,
He’d work with the team achieving the goals,
And his name, well hello, he is me.
first impression was great.
wonderful smile, enthusiastic,
glad to be hired, upbeat and positive.
second impression, more of the same.
fantastically caring, kind. Gets along with
all of the like-minded staff members.
third impression – friendly, honest, willing to
pitch in and do without much direction.
rumors swirled. She’s uppity; she thinks she
is all that; she is too confident.
TOO confident? I could not stop laughing.
When she thanked me for standing up
to the nay-sayers, I knew I was right.
rumors died a natural death of course
as there are more upbeats here than
downbeats.
because the downbeats are the loudest
does not mean they win.
THE COMMON COLD
Have you ever felt like you were going to die?
And you knew good and well the reason why;
and as you got sicker and sicker;
and the heavy gloom grew thicker and thicker,
it began to seem like the very end,
so I decided to call my very best friend.
And when I called him I told him
"I think that I will never see
anything again as lovely as a tree;"
and he sighed because
he himself was feeling a little sad;
and he said "Cheer up, friend,
it can't be that bad!"
And I told him for sure, for sure it was.
But I got no sympathy
as an injured person does;
and I started to feel bent out of shape
and even mad. E-gad!
And I began to think that that friend of mine
was a bit of a cad.
And then suddenly my temperature broke;
and I cracked another one
of my world famous jokes;
and my friend laughed and snickered and told me
he thought it was one of my finest;
and I said no it wasn't
and thanked him for his kindness;
and then when I hung up my phone,
I smiled, sat down and knew that I would live forever,
because a dying person never has enough energy
to be that clever.
Janet Marie Bingham
TIRED WALMART EMPLOYEE
harried
married
tarried
carried
she was harried, married to a jerk
never tarried, carried on with work
20 January 2018
For contest sponsored by Kim Rodrigues
His mischief and mishaps
all becoming a frequent accident,
only the quest for a selfish satisfaction
makes him prudent.
Research on loopholes and hidden corners
he stays ardent
busier than all others
but a broad day light rodent.
For almost every fulfilled task,
there is a dent
no matter his might,
the general takes his orders from the president.
The day power is restored
to reveal an incident
he’ll be expelled without a second thought
like a notorious student.
I missed the meeting, again.
‘It was important’ -
My manager rebukes me often;
But if I knew it was
I would promulgate to my whole family
In its entirety: Attend!
No questions asked!
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