Monday, 16 June 2014

Paper Cuts



It was just after five when he gave out.

“All right, do it.” he muttered, draining the last of the whisky he had drunk all night as we argued.

“You sure?” said his suck up, sorry, ‘assistant’, who clearly wasn’t convinced.

“We need to cut the budget by a tenth or the government doesn’t get the bailout, and this is the only way we’ll manage it without voter revolt. Do it!”

I nodded and began to shift the numbers, making it seem like we were firing people.

And actually doing so as well, but I didn’t bother telling him that.

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