30 November 2006

Employee of the Year

Long Johns was named employee of the year for his dedication and devotion to the rule book. Numerous are exemples of his fidelity. We'll just cite one of these to illustrate that. Here writes a local newpaper,

At the height of the bloody war againts the rebels, the government call out to the lost boys and girls, offering them amnesty if they should hand over their weapons and return to society before 31 of August, 2006.

Later, on that fateful day of 3 of September of the same year, 300 individuals queued up in front of the window in the Registration department with their rifles and balaclavas. The tension was high in the office and in the stairs leading downwards, because Long Johns, risking the possiblity of turning his wife into a widow and 2 sons into orphans, refused to stamp on their surrender form because the offer expired 72 hours and 24 minutes ago. So he sent them down the stairs and back to the mountains where they came down from.

"What a bunch of irresponsible hooligans missing dates like that! How do they expect people to do their jobs if everyone behaves like that?" Said he.

Protests nationwide sprang from the episode, and the civil unrest started once again. The government, recognizing his contribution to the state, named Long Johns employee of the Year.

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