'Look at me when I'm talking to you!'�
The booming voice declares
As my manager looms over me
With such aggressive, hateful stares.
' Did you have a shave today?'�
I nervously explain that I did
' Well I don't believe you have'�
' You really must think that I'm stupid'�
Apart of me wants to say he must be
But I felt intimidated by this lardy sloth
As he bellows ' O.k. if you like playing mind games'�
'See me at six thirty and I'll even measure the growth!'�.
My eyes felt pushed out by the embarrassment
While he belittles me on the spot
' Now I'm going to ask you again! Right in the office!'�
As he continued to deal out his cruel, deliberate plot.
Hoping that I would jump before I was pushed
Spying on me on camera, slating anything I achieved
My lips quivered with such pain, emotion, such anger
For his utter disregard for the esteem I justly retrieved.
I sensed that my heart was dragging on the lino
I didn't know whether to punch him or run away
' All you do is just enough isn't it!'�, if true:
Why was he only one that didn't want me to stay?
Given that I used to agree to work my days off
Even working well over my normal time
I remember trying to avoid him like the plague
Or if he had been plastered in some toxic slime!
But in the end I thought 'is a job worth all this?
I've had one break down, do I really want another?'�
And the answer was no, so I quickly resigned
I had enough of being pursued by big brother.
However I did write a colourful letter to head office
And there was a good conclusion to this poetic story
I see it as an belated sense of justice for all he hurt
For all the underdogs that missed the taste of glory.
As two members of staff had been fixing accounts for years
This didn't look good, so he was transferred to a different place
Somewhere that wouldn't tolerate his thuggish manner
Somewhere where he would get a lot more than just egg on the face!

© Daniel North

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