The tall fox took another long drag of his coffee as the elevator chimed, announcing he had arrived to the offices of Furry-Within.com.
It wasn't a large office. It didn't take much to run the website with an overseas office doing much of the programing work. Here, it was mostly the logistics, maintenance and design work with a few other staffers to cover everything else. At this time of day, there weren't too many employees about. Most of them would arrive later and many were capable of working at home so there were always empty desks here and there among the dozen or on the floor. Grouped together in twos and threes by department.
They had taken down the cubicle walls the year before to make the office a bit more open, and to better monitor the employees. Most of the wood topped metal desks had computers on them, usually surrounded by the corresponding employees various things. In front of the elevator was the largest desk among them belonging to the secretary who hadn't yet arrived it seemed.
Flicking a nearby switch, a warm glow of florescence filled the space with light. Marking the all too familiar path for the fox to move across the work floor towards his small office in the back. Passing the desks of his small marketing team, he wondered when they'd get filled. If the two remained open much longer, he might be able to bring his son on board.
As he reached the wood framed door to his office, Nester smiled a bit at the sight of his name still there upon it. "Nester Delgado," "Marketing Manager," underneath. Gazing across the office, he looked to see if the other managers were in yet. By the looks of things, the lights inside each identical were off. The door to the two meeting rooms were left open...again, and only the faint sounds of humming servers and computers could be heard. Something about that made him wonder why they'd given him a server room key along with his keys to the kitchen, the washroom and the 'executive washroom.'
Inside his own office, he flipped on the lights and took off his suit jacket to hang upon the coat rack near the door. Leaving it open so he'd hear the other staffers come in. Adjusting his blue tie and black vest a bit, the fox made his way to his desk. He'd worn the black suit with the gold buttons today which often meant he was in a particularly good mood. A button beneath his monitor would turn it on to display the website. He'd spend the next hour or so making sure things were running smoothly, but more importantly to see the websites traffic from the previous evening.
(OoC: This is open to all. There are no nights and days, just one long continuous work cycle. Everyone is free to work where ever, so long as there's no overlap. Once a job is first posted, that job belongs to that fur until they leave, i.e. if someone is already the secretary, you can always put in an application ;). Also, if you choose to join, but later decide to leave, please mention this with your character simply going home for the day or something. Let's see how long we can keep this going. Have fun!)
*the sloth had relented outside of the building for a bit. Looking up at the sky as he exhales, a wispy trail of smoke leaving his lips as he flicks the filter of the cancer stick in his hand. He wasn't delaying, its just Cigarettes cost so much. And he lit this one a bit later then he should. He could have put it out, stuffed it back in the pack, and waited till later. But he was already smoking, so why not finish. He finally got the cherry down to within an inch of the filter. He had kept himself from smoking farther then that, to help him quit this stuff all together. He flicks the cherry off of the end of the roll of paper. It flies off into the street and glows for a bit before burning out. Heading upstairs, he took the elevator. Just a few floors up. He closed his eyes and leaned his head back against the wall of the elevator. Letting out a soft sigh* "Its too eaaarly..." *with almost a child like tone to his voice.
Getting to the office he makes his way past most of the computer filled tables. The sky still a faint orange outside as the sun rose. He noticed the light on in one of the other manager's offices. He gave a knock, opened the door abruptly and stuck his head in* "Mornin." *he closed the door shortly after that. Sometimes the fox would jump at the sudden greeting. Other times he would just nod and smile. He was tempted to buy a mask or something for Halloween this year and try bursting into his office in the early morning. After the greeting that had become a ritual over the past few months. He made his way to his office a few doors down. Looking at the name "Fen - Lead Bipedal Resource Manager." *He had been told that it was too risque with the fact that a tuar could sue them for discrimination. He had answered* "Its describing me. I'm the lead resource manager with two feet. Its just using a different phrase to describe that." *he would take a seat in his office, and read the list of issues and reports that people would send him. He would read them, reaching over and turning on a radio. Keeping it soft for the room at the moment*
The white vixen had followed the sloth into the Furry-Within.com office building as she had just come from her car. She wore a black knee length pencil skirt and a white long sleeve blouse that held a V-shaped collar, just to show off a little bit of her neck and chest, while her long white hair flowed down her back. Before she took her spot at the Secretary desk, she had to make way to the kitchen to drop her lunch and dinner off, as she knew it was going to be a very long day. Seeing the sloth then poking his head into the marketing managers office, she patted her back when he withdrew it. "Good morning, Mr. Fen. If you keep smoking those cancer sticks, I am afraid you may be in the hospital more so than our dear office..." She spoke in a sweet, yet exotic, tone of voice as she smiled to him, before opening the door to look at Nester. "Good morning to you as well, Mr. Nester. Hope your night was relaxing away from the office." The smile stayed strong as she closed the door before making way to the kitchen to put her food away. Once finished, she made a cup of coffee for herself and made way back to her desk with her name plate upon it "Soira Kobett", ready to take phone calls and messages for her fellow employees as she placed her glasses upon her face, fixing her desk up to make it just perfect.
In the server room the tall wolf ran a hand through his hair, this was not good. He'd run through the code again and again . . . this had to be a mistake. Then, somewhere deep in the blur as he kept working over the hours, ignoring the windows and the change of scenery outside them he found it. He reached that single perfect moment. "Got you bastard . . ." he said pointing with a finger at the screen as he held up the large can and laughed putting it down and typing like mad. The site had been hacked not too long ago, members that had been permanently banned had made their own little group and were trying to cause trouble on the forum side. And now he'd gotten to the source of it, and was getting rid of it. After he was done he gave himself a few claps, throwing out the empty can and stood.
He stretched a bit and grabbed his shirt from the nearby table, fastening it hastily and cursing as he discovered that he had once again lost his tie. Some day, far into the future he figured a singularity would open up and a flood of his ties would drown all the people of the world . . . or at the very least some unfortunate janitor would run into a pile of them somewhere. For now he ignored it, he could look for it tomorrow. But that's when he noticed the lights, as he put on his very professional looking business coat. At least his girlfriend had thought it looked professional. He thought it looked blue. Oh well, mars, venus all that. He moved out of the room the reality of the lights coming to him finally. He would look for his tie later today, as it was tomorrow already. The slot and fox were coming in as he exited the server closet, wiping sweat from his brow as he did so. He wiped his hands clean on a wrag as he moved toward the kitchen.
He'd meant to say hi to Soira, but as usual ended up just staying quiet, figures. IT senior tech and department manager and he can't talk to a pretty girl. There's a cliche in there somewhere. Instead he just put the wrag away in the kitchen and got himself a nice glass of ice water. He stunk, he knew it . . . but maybe the boss would let him leave to get a shower . . . or maybe the secretary would go with him to take a shower. No . . . stop, you're at work man come on . . . one girl already left you, no reason to start on that road so quick again. Instead he moved past her desk, nodding to her and knocked on the boss' door. "Mr. Delgado sir, it's Mikkaddo, I have the report about the issue we had recently about the site." He was hoping deep down that he stunk enough for the boss to let him leave for that shower . . . maybe if he smelled bad enough from being in that server room so long he'd get that time, who knows? he might even get a raise since he for once did it in a single go.
The hair on the back of Nester's neck flipped up as he was so suddenly surprised by the sloth. "Every....morning...." He thought to himself as he forced out a friendly smile and gave a friendly, though dismissive flick of his hand towards his fellow manager. He and Fen had a well enough working relationship and Nester knew these little early morning surprises were just Fen's way of being nice. In truth, if Fen missed a day, Nester would find himself feeling off the rest of the day without it. Shaking his head a bit, he would grin as he watched the sloth back right into Soira.
"Good morning Soira. Thank you, Soira." Soira seemed like a great secretary, from what Nester saw anyway. She really knew how to keep things running and in line and as you can expect, had a great relationship with the staff. Some of the guys had even tried to go out with her from time to time. Nester didn't know firsthand if she'd been involved in any mailroom romances, but if anyone was getting used for sex, it'd be the men. Women? He perked an eyebrow at the sudden thought going through his mind before clearing it away to focus on his monitor again.
"Hey Mikk," he said with his attention on his work. Breaking away quickly from his screen mid-sentence to reply, "Which one? You mean the one about those damn Ragnorok Online trolls?" His eyes suddenly screwed up tight as he looked Mikk over for the first time that day. "Did you sleep here again? You smell awful." He asked sounding concerned more than anything for his coworker. "Don't you ever wear a tie? I don't think I've ever seen you wearing one."
Sitting up in his chair, he placed a firm hand upon his desk and sat back a little as he looked Mikk over a bit more as he shifted his attention fully to the technician. The two often worked closely together to ensure that things were running smoothly in order to keep everyone happy. When the website worked well, they'd get more registers. When it ran poorly, they ended up with less and less log-ins and it would be a while before the numbers would go back up.
"Maybe you should clean yourself up in the bathroom or something. If you need a new tie, I think I have one around here somewhere." Getting up, Nester walked over to a tall filling cabinet. It looked like it was made of wood from the outside, but inside was black metal. It was very similar in style to his broad desk. A cherry finished pine that had cost him quite a bit, but he was very proud of it. Sorting through the drawer, he scavenged through a few loose items before finding a bright green tie.
"Here, you can keep this one. Seriously though, clean yourself up a bit. I know you've been working really hard and that's why you...well, stink, but you should still look professional around the others. Besides, I'm not sure who's coming in today. We might have a new intern starting soon and I know for a fact she's pretty cute." The fox smirked a bit at the wolf as he handed him the tie, walking around his desk a bit to do so. "Now, what was that you mentioned about a report?"
He nodded putting a packet down on the desk. He'd worked on it all night along with the rest of what he'd done in that clogged server room all night and had worked hard to make it make sense. "It's mostly tech speak but basically, I found the door they were using, tore it out, and put a wall there. Oh, and I reported their IP Addresses and more importantly individual machine Mac Addresses to the local police, they shouldn't be getting to us again any time soon sir." He was very proud of his work. "Ah, thanks for the tie, I do own one . . . I have owned several . . . but they keep vanishing in the office." He laughed awkwardly, "honestly I would bet that there's a confused janitor that keeps finding ties around here each night somewhere." He put a hand through his long black hair. "And uh sir, I don't live that far away . . . so if you don't mind I'd like to take an hour or so to go home, take a shower, and come back. Especially if we've got a new intern . . . do you know what department she's going to? I'd hate to try and train someone when I smell like the back end of a burnt harddrive." He laughed softly, IT humor . . . usually he seemed to be the only one that got it, or at least thought it was funny.
She smiled as she seen Mikkaddo walk from the kitchen to Mr. Nester's room as she gave a gentle wave to him, while also vocalizing. "Good morning to you as well, Mr. Mikkaddo. I'm sorry I didn't say anything to you when we passed each other earlier." She continued to smile as the phone rang and she answered it. "I'm sorry... it seems he isn't in yet, but if you leave your name and number I'll make sure he calls you when he comes in today." She murred out to the caller as she wrote the details down. "Thank you. You too as well, ma'am." She hung up, writing the last bit of the note only to stand up and walk to the office space of the employee that wasn't there yet, leaving the note in plain sight. Sighing, she walked back to Mr. Nester's door, knocking. "Pardon me, Mr. Nester. I was curious if you needed anymore coffee before you started another big day." She looked to Mikkaddo and smiled. "I didn't mean to intrude if I did, I'm sorry." She bowed her head in an apologetic way to them both. "Just want to make sure everyone is settled in for a long work day." Her nose twitched to the smell that was emanating off the wolf, but she didn't mind it. "How about you, Mr. Mikkaddo? Would you like a cup before you go to get a shower?" She murred out, her thick white fluffy tail swaying behind her. She heard all that happened in the office, especially if there were only the four of them there at the moment.
"Walls, doors, right, got it. Good work," Nester said with a practiced expression of pride in his face. Patting the wolf's shoulder with a warm friendly smile. Truthfully he had no idea what the wolf was talking about. "Mac Addresses? What about the PC Addresses? Did he get those too?" Whatever he meant, it was clear Mikk was doing his job well and would make Nester's job all the easier as part of it.
As he listened to the wolf talk about his missing ties, he set the green one down upon his desk, placing his palm upon it and shifting back a bit to half-sit upon the wooden surface. Nodding and smiling, even chuckling a bit at the joke about the ties all being in the same place.
"Alright, alright. I know what you mean," he said, not really getting the joke. "Go on, but be quick. Try to make it back within the hour if you can. I honestly don't know where the intern is going. From the looks of it, we may have more than one position open right now." His right hand would bounce a bit with his words as he spoke. Pointing to various places in the office as he mentioned the other openings before smiling at Soira peeking in through the open door.
"No, you're not intruding. Sure, I'll take a decaf. You know how I can't have too much caffeine in my system." His smiled brightened at her as he spoke. His own tail swaying a little behind him a little against the desk. It was true he couldn't drink too much caffeine. Likely he'd be hyper for an hour and then pass out, but it was always nice to see Soira taking care of everyone.
*he was left with a smile on his face after Soria greeted him. He left his office after checking his office emails. He then went to the suggestion box he had hung up on the outside of his door. Picking up the papers and looking through them. Nothing of importance except a few people wanting a longer break for lunch. He figured an hour is more then enough, and knew that a few other companies nearby had only thirty minuets for lunch. He also wasn't a stickler for when people were late by just a few minuets either. He set the notes on his desk and left the office to take a walk around the office, and to head to the soda machine in the break room. He didn't enjoy coffee but needed the caffeine to wake up the rest of the way. He would pass by Mikk on his way out, remembering the email he had been sent about the site attack* "Hey Mikk. Good job on keeping the site up during the attack." *he was tempted to tell him about looking into a raise for him, he was due for one soon. Though he was also aware that money was tight these days within the office. He puts a few coins into the machine and gets his drink. He looked to the coffee machine and shook his head, someone had left the old pot filled from the last shift. It had been on too, and a brown stain had formed at the bottom. He moved over to it, taking it off the hotplate and bringing it to the sink. He opened the cabinet to look for some soap. He looked to the fake mouse someone had set near the extra creamer. It had been there a while, and everyone got a short chuckle when someone opened the door and jumped. Sometimes more then once* "Nester letting you go home for a bit?" *he asked as he began to wash the pot out*
Mikkaddo smiled to Nester and said. "Thank you sir, I'll be back before you know it." As he was leaving he nodded to Soira. "Good morning Soira." He was able to do say it to her because he was more focused on getting a shower and getting back in time. He didn't even notice the sloth talking about coffee. He got down to the parking lot though, and got into his car. Everything seemed fine but he suddenly felt blind, that's when he realized what was wrong, the pavement was white and the sun was extra bright today because of the lack of cloud cover. He felt around in his glove box and found his sunglasses. At last, he could see. He drove off quickly, not enough to break any laws that he knew of, but he had to get home and shower. When he got home he pushed open the door, the lights still off. That was good since he lived alone. He made quick work of taking a shower and then came back out, rushing to work again with a six pack of energy drinks from his fridge in tow.
At the parking lot, he kept the sunglasses on when he got out of his car, this time able to see because of the glasses. When he got up to the office he waved to whoever was around in the main room and went down to his office, putting away the energy drinks in his mini fridge. He fired up his computer and checked the site real quick first, the traffic looked good and the numbers were going back up. "Ha . . . no more trolling Ragnarok . . . take your goatse somewhere else." He chuckled and started checking his email, a few spam mails in his company account but these things happened so he marked them and moved on.
"Murrh.. oh god that's good.." The Tiger purred as he drove towards work in his Mitsubishi Lancer, he had the window rolled down which caused the breeze of warm wind to spill inside his car and made his long hair struggle to keep in place from the force of the invisible force, seeing bright yellow arches in the form of an 'M' glinting in the sunlight, "...Maybe I should have some breakfast.. fuck yeah.. I need some breakfast.." He started to speed up, worried if he didn't get to the Drive thru in time, someone else would get in front of him, and that would be terrible! The tiger was pushing 70 in a 50 zone, his paw quickly flicking out to turn on his CD player, the speakers errupting with music, '..No place to hang out our washing, and I can't blame all on the sun, oh no~ We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue~ And then we'll take it higher!' "Aww yeah..! We gonna rock down to Electric Avenue~"
Celzic purred to himself as he pulls into the drive thru after flooring it through a red light to get to the Golden Arches in time, swerving in front of someone. In front of the queue he moves up to the ordering box, abruptly cutting off the Drive Thru Operator, "Yeah yeah.. I want a Bacon and Egg McMuffin with some Orange Juice and some pancakes.. make sure there's shitloads of syrup packs, too.. last time I didn't get enough and my pancakes were dry as hell!" He growled quietly to emphasize on how much dry pancakes pissed him off..
'...Okayy.. that'll be $8, pull up to the window.' He smiles softly, "Thank you.." He turned up his music again as he coasted over to the window, cars behind him tooting as he didn't go fast enough for him, he grabs his wallet from the glove compartment and pulls out a $10 note, touching on the brakes as he comes to the window, presenting the money to the operator, they trade. He opens up the bag to inspect the contents.. "Aww come on.. gimme MORE syrup!" He shot out his paw again, the Operator rolling her eyes as she throws five more of those packs at him, he flinches, "...Thanks, jeez.. didn't have to be a sour puss about it.." He packs them away and smiles at the Ragamuffin (Cat) who flips him off. He drives onwards to work, the song on his CD player changing to Push The Tempo from Fatboy Slim, "Aww yeah..!" He turns it up, the modified seats in the back pulsing with the bass, the seats themselves were speakers with fiberglass fixed over it from his last paycheck.
The tiger was only a few hundred yards from his usual parking space around the back of the building. "Wha--- Aww! Great..!" He huffs as he sees he had a challenge already! He had to parallel park.. "..Challenge accepted." going Pokerface, the tiger slowly starts to manouevre around his parking space before backing up, checking his wing mirrors to get the right distance between the cars, he smiles as he jams on the parking brake and cuts the ignition, "Ahh~ Good.." He grabs his breakfast and takes off his seatbelt, pushing open the door, the tiger slips out with his breakfast, "Hope the boss man doesn't mind I'm a smidgen late.." He gives the door a nudge with his foot behind him to shut it, using his clicker to lock the doors, he made his way up to the building.
Knowing he couldn't manage the stairs, Celzic took the elevator up to the correct floor, "Hm.. wonder if they dealt with that problem.." He nibbles his claw nervously as the doors of the elevator open. The tiger sauntered on out, wearing his 'casual' uniform of black pants and a crisp white shirt, he starts to head for Fen's office, giving the window a tap with a claw before entering, "Heyy.. sorry I'm a smidgen late.." The clock read otherwise, he was thirty three minutes late, he ran a hand through his hair nervously, "Traffic.. it was murder.." Hiding the paper bag of goodies behind him, he grins softly, "So, what shall I be doing today, hmm?" His tail sways behind him slowly as he looked upon the Sloth for his instructions.
Soira smiled to Nester as she walked into the room to retrieve his coffee cup from earlier. "I'll be right back then, Sir." She murred happily out to the male as she turned around to walk out of the office, her hips and tail swaying about. Just as she left, she noticed Celzic quickly making way to Fens' office. "I'll tell him good morning when I see him. I hope he seen the call back note on his desk." Soira thought to herself as she made way to the kitchen to make Nester his coffee just the way he liked it. Smiling to herself, she held the cup in her paws as she walked by the tigers office space. "G'morning, Mr. Celzic. I hope you weren't too late this morning. I left you a number to call back. She seemed eager and wished you were in before she called. A new love interest?" She teased at the male as she patted his back with a small giggle. "Pardon me, I must be getting Mr. Nesters' coffee back to him. Have a nice day of work." She prayed for him before moving back to Nesters' office.
"One decaf coffee for Mr. Nester." She murred out as she leaned down just that tad bit to him, allowing him just the teasing view to her v-necked clothed bosom, only just a brief tease as she stood back up straight. "Enjoy, Sir." She smiled as she turned to walk out, making her way back to her desk, the phone ringing. "Good morning, Soira of Furry-Within.com, how can I help you?... mmhmm.. mhmmm.. oh? That's wonderful. I'll let Mr. Nester know you're on your way then." She hung up the phone as she was so glad she hadn't sat back down. Making way back to Nesters' office, she knocked. "Sir, the people for our new copier will be here within the next hour or two. Would you like for me to sent them your way, or would you like for me to take care of it personally?" She asked him at the door, her tail swaying playfully behind her.
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Noob. New kid. Child. Fresh meat. All words that ran through Shiishii's mind. Yes, she was seventeen, her birthday was in two days and she was just starting her new job today. Was she too young for it? Of course, but she graduated early, a year early to be exact. She went straight to college afterwards, having finished at least one year, she would make a good assistant at least. People scoffed as she walked by. Her cheeks pink, sweat running down her cheek. She was very nervous. She had not forgotten where she was going with a photographic memory of the floor plans, how could she.
Her blue hair, the only thing rebellious about her, pinned back into a bun, held with two dull rods. She was wearing a suitable, a black button down shirt with a white under shirt, and long black pants. She looked smart, which also meant bland. She did not want to give off the wrong vibe, she wanted to be serious but maybe it was a bad idea. Shew as second guessing. No. She was not going to walk away from this opportunity. She never did. She wiped the sweat from under her bangs. She memorized everything from the handbooks she had learned in her computer classes. She remembered...everything. She didnt look like any of the office people, she looked less casual even though her job would be considered a very casual one.
She shifted the glasses over her eyes and pushed them a bit closer to her face as she reached the office she was supposed to go to. She would reach the IT office. She looked around seeing that she must have been early, lest she was the only hire. She blinked and looked to a separate door. She would clear her throat and walk toward it. She gave it a light knock. "M-Mister Mikkado?" She would say and wait for an answer. Poor girl was as nervous as ever.
Mikkaddo was typing like mad at his computer not even looking up when the door was knocked on, it creaked open slowly showing the wolf madly at work, a green tie on his desk and a mini fridge on the ground near it. He seemed to reach an end point in whatever he was doing and looked up, running a hand through his hair and let out a long silent breath when he saw her. He almost spoke then bit his lip to say it only in his mind. "I knew they were getting me someone else to help out but DAMN . . ." He pushed the tray his keyboard was on in under the top layer of the desk, and turned off his monitor. "Good morning, you must the assistant they told me was coming to work here." he stood smiling and came around his desk to shake her hand. "And your name would be . . .?" The problem was they had told him he'd have help, but they never mentioned who this person would be or for that matter that they'd look like her.
She would look through the creeked door. She blinked a few times before stepping in to meet him. She would blink a couple times before walking through. She seemed to be standing there for ever, or at least it seemed for a teenager. She cleared her throat some and it was then when she was noticed. She would look to him and put on a simple smile. "I, uh." She shook her head, assistant? Thats not what she applied for was it.. No. She shook her head no again and gave a soft chuckle. "No, I am not an assistant..I am supposed to work here. In the IT office.. I read all the manuals. Memorized all the floor plans.. I work here, with the computers." She would almost look confused, but still pleased to be here.
"Where do I sit.." She would ask looking around the room where it seemed to be just him. She completely forgot about his hand hanging there. Child ADD, had to be. She then looked back to him and looked at his hand and shook it. She gave a nervous chuckle and looked to him again for his answer. "Oh, Shiishii" She would say. "That is my name.." Where did she sit..
He smiled shaking her hand. She was so nervous, he had to stifle a laugh and stood back. "Well Shiishii, that's my mistake . . . I was told at some point I would get an intern, but not told anything else about this mysterious person. But since I AM the IT department, another pair of hands is greatly appreciated." He pointed to the other few desks in the room, his department was one big office, it had been a conference room at one point, but since there were 2 and since this one was a great deal smaller they turned it into a different department for IT. There were computers on the other desks too. "Choose any one you want, I can set up your credentials when I finish with this latest update and untill then, just log in under guest, the info is on that sheet." He then looked up and closed the door, turning to her again. "Though, if you log in under guest and change your IP address to this . . . you won't have the intranet censors" and slipped her a small sticky note. "I won't be done for at least another hour or two, and it can get kind of boring just staring at the company site . . ."
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[Cel Fen works till about midnight est. Till then half the time he is sleeping lol. Have patience with him dear. But yes, he works.]
As Soira walked away, Nester smirked a bit as he watched those hips sway back and forth. Once she'd left, he went about his work. Sipping his coffee and admiring the day before his phone rang.
"Hello? Oh hey Den-Deni? How are you? Great. Well, you don't have to...yeah I know, but...well, okay. Just don't cause too much trouble, okay? Luv you too." With that he hung up the phone and ran his hand through his hair with a soft sigh. Shaking his head and blushing a bit as he had to laugh to himself about his son.
Of course he looked. How could he not have looked as the alluring girl gave him such a wonderful view. He smiled up to her sincerely as he humbly accepted his coffee. Though it was common knowledge among his staff that he was bi-sexual, it seemed to only double his troubles with the various staff advances. Trying not to stare too long, he nodded and smiled up at her, "Thanks Soira." When she left again, he went back to his work. Checking the usage logs, looking at which threads had the most hits, etc. The chat logs seemed to suggest a lot of banter about upcoming events which made the fox grin.
Once Soira returned, he looked over his mug at her, taking a sip of his coffee, he murred softly at the taste while her words sunk in. "Hmm, yeah, you can send them my way if you want. That things been on life support for too long." After he spoke, the fox rose from his seat and brushed past the girl in his doorway. "I just saw the new IT girl. Mikk's either gonna be pissed off or in love with me. I better go check this out. Excuse me Soira."
With that, Nester headed to that dreadful IT closet of death, or at least that's what he liked to call it. Knocking on the door, he made his way inside. Only a foot or so as it seemed awfully cramped enough as it was. He eye'd the new girl over a bit with a warm friendly smile before extending his hand out to her. This was a delicate situation. He'd hired the new girl on as additional IT support without consulting Mikk. He knew the wolf might take it personally, so he'd used the word "intern' to test the water before laying it on him. However, now that the girl was here, the truth was likely out. Still, she was fairly attractive, so the wolf couldn't be taking it all that bad.
"Well, I do a lot better work than an intern, at least, I would hope so." She cleared her throat some and would look around the room at the other empty computers. She blinked a few times and looked back to mik. She would give him a light nod and take her tiny brief case, and his sticky note, and move to the computer farthest away. For the time being this would be her place, until she got to know him better, then she might move closer. She would set her brief case on the floor and pull out her own chair. She would take her seat and turn the computer on. While she waited for it to load she would decorate her area with nothing more than one picture. Her and her mother. She set it right next to the computer and gave a content nod.
The computer was finally up and rearing to go, as was she. Her fingers worked at a speed that was rarely recognized. It sounded like a mere couple of key strokes, but in actuallaty it was about five or six. In a second she was done. The computer was on its home screen and she was ready to go. She opened up the control panel and began to run a diagnostic on the computer she was working at. Some more key strokes and she bypassed a few different things. She squinted her eyes some and adjusted her glasses. She let out a breath and would look towards mik, giving him a light nod.
She looked back to her computer and looked down. She shook her head some and would get a little more comfortable. she couldnt think when she felt like she was tense. She pulled the rods from her hair and let the blue hair fall down onto her shoulders. She pushed some hair behind her ear and let out a short sigh. She gave a couple clicks here, couple clicks there and she would sit back. Her ear twitched to see Nester enter. She shot up out of her seat and stood like a soldier, stiff, next to her seat. "Mister Delgado.." She would say a little squeaky. Had she done something wrong? She looked around a bit and then down to his outstretched hand. "Oh," She would take it with both slender hands and shake. "Thank you for this opportunity. I am merely checking out the computer I have selected to work at. Just making sure I know what kind of species I am working with." She gave a light chuckle, a tad nervous still. "Mik is busy and hasnt given me much to do, but I thought I would get started on my own basics. Maybe even update a resume or two..." She chuckled some, what a dork she was. She was trying to hold back the urge to faint. Even her heart was beating at a pace she didnt desire. she cleared her throat again and smiled, letting go of his hand finally. "Is there anything I need to know?"
Soira smiled as she nodded to Nester about letting the copier people go to him before doing anything else. "Of course, Mr. Nester." She murred out, only to see him get up from his desk and seat, only to look out his door to see the new girl that had made her way in. She didn't bother stopping in with the secretary, and something about that upset her, but she just smiled and bowed her head. "Then I will go resume my job at my desk. If you need me for anything else, sir, don't be afraid to ask." With that, the arctic vixen walked back to her desk until the phone rang, or someone needed her. For the time being, she sorted through some more paperwork and made the spreadsheets that accompanied them on her computer.
When Nester came into the room Mikkaddo instinctively looked up. He'd been working here only a little while, but had learned very quickly what the sounds were when different people came to the room. Most of the time he didn't care too much that someone was coming, until they started to speak. But Nester was different, Nester was Mikkaddo's Boss. He took special care to look up as soon as Nester came in and smiled as he heard the new girl stuttering and acting so nervous. He turned to watch their conversation, smugly smirking at his boss as the girl tried to compose herself. He knew that the boss had been messing with him about an intern. He knew it as soon as she came into the room surprised by the word intern. But he was good natured enough, and this girl was . . . well, to be honest he was glad he'd had a chance to clean up long before she showed up. He wouldn't say it but he kept looking up at her every so often while she worked on her station, he couldn't stop. Then he realized he could hear Soira near by and looked over through the door. Now there was a woman . . . maybe now that he didn't reek he'd finally ask her out. He'd been meaning to for so long but he was pretty sure the only person she wanted to get in to that with was Nester.
The white vixen smiled as she had just finished the call for the copier people. Of course they would say they were lost... The morons were just taking their good sweet time, regardless that the place that needed a new copier was an office who uses copiers like they are nothing. Shaking her head, Soira sighed and stood up, stretching her arms up above her. Time to meet the new girl and see if she and Mikk would like something to drink, now that her phone had stopped and she was all caught up on work.
Making her way to the room in which the new girl and the wolf sat, along with Mr. Nester who had moved to check up on the girl. "Pardon me Mr. Mikkaddo... Would you and Ms. Shiishii like a cup of coffee or a cup of iced tea from the kitchen?" She asked softly as her eyes ran over the wolf who was sitting down and looking straight back at her, as she only smiled softly to him.
As Nester stood there, holding the door frame with one hand and leaning in, he couldn't help but admire his two employees. How well they already seemed to get along with one another and how they should create a good and balanced team. He was right in hiring Shiishii and it was good that the two didn't have any sort of power struggle, at least for the time being. There was lots of work to be done with the site and it needed a pair of good heads, despite the fact that the fox knew Mikk would have the hots for the young girl. Normally, Nester didn't mind office romance, but in the same room? Things could get tricky if they didn't go smoothly for the two of them, but he knew Mikk well and trusted he'd be a good boy and not let things get too dramatic.
"I've got a meeting with Fen later, but I'm glad you too are working out. I'll let him know that things are fine here. If you you have any questions Shiishii, you just ask Mikk." His smile was warm and inviting. "Hey Mikk, why don't you give her the full tour instead of just this room. Relax a bit, you'll be working together. Take thirty minutes and teach her how things work here and go get a coffee outside if you need to. Don't worry about it. Whatever you were working on, I'm sure you can finish it together when you get back."
With that, he slipped past Soira, placing a soft hand delicately on her lower back in a quick brushing stroke. A touch so deft he could deny it ever happened, but enough that she'd know he did. With a soft smirk he kept his eyes focused ahead while walking back to his office. Stopping for a second in the middle of the work floor to turn towards to the vixen's desk.
Shiishii wasnt a one to ... how do you put it? Come on to another. Perhaps that was it. Letting the thought pass right through the depths of her mind she wiggled her fingers some at her sides. Just a simple nervous antsy tick of hers. She looked from nester to mik and back again, a light flick of her round ear as a meeting was mentioned. She gave a gentle nod and cleared her throat as she gave a tender and genuine smile as he announced his departure. She looked back to mik as he was given orders to show her around, a look in her eyes could be seen as 'really? but.. but..' the fact that she would rather be here than meet other people was off for a girl her age, but it was just who she was, dorky and anti social, the perfect computer nerd.
Her cheeks turned a shade of pink and when Nester would finally leave she would return to her desk seeing that her computer was done with its check. She would hit a few buttons and look over to mik. "Do.... we have to go check out the rest of the building..?" Well, perhaps it was more shy than anti social, but who could really tell the difference. She hit the keys on her keyboard rather slowly and sighed. She didnt like this keyboard. She would have to bring in her cordless things tomorrow.
She looked back to mik turning her chair to face him. She was very content where she was, but.. if he had to take her.. then she would go. Her round ears twitched hear and there and she would begin pulling back her hair again. "I guess, if we have to.." She said quietly and would stand. As the door was left open she could hear the words of soira. Offering a drink. Her eyes closed some and she opened them shaking her head with out a word.
Their was an apparent difference conversing with the person that you would be working next to for some time, and conversing with other coworkers. Some times, it took a lot to get her to open up. Patience was key for people to talk to her. She would wait for mik to make the choice.
Mikkaddo shook his head as Soira asked. "No thank you, I don't need anything, but thanks for the offer." He smiled to her though and laughed when Nester made his comments about Mikk giving her a full tour. It made him a little uncomfortable to hear that from Nester, as the last time the two of them had talked about a tour, he'd used the term "full tour" himself as an inuendo for sex, which had made for a good laugh between the two of them. But hearing him talk like that now was a bit jarring at first. He gave a good smile though, and when they moved away from the office he turned in his chair to Shiishii. "We don't have to go around if you'd prefer not to . . . though, I'd be willing to give you a tour if you really want it."
Soira blushed lightly as she felt that light hand brushing at the small of her back, causing her to look to Nester. Oh that man was an evil one, and she couldn't help but shake her head with a smirk upon her muzzle. Smiling, she looked back to the two in the IT room and nodded her head as they both said no to her offer. "Of course then. Maybe in a little bit you'll want something to drink." She murred as she eyed the new intern, then looked to Mikk, and giggled, only to walk out of the IT room to walk back to her desk. Upon seeing Nester at her desk, she quickly made her way back to it. "Mr. Nester, how can I help you, Sir?" She would ask softly, putting one of her hands atop of his arm. "Are you waiting for the new copier to come?"
"I would think if you dont Nester would be displeased, surely the last thing you want. I say... lets just do it and get it over with, be the rare time anyone would see me any way." She chuckled quietly, she will probably barely leave her office, dedication ran in ther blood thick. She gave Mikk a friendly smile and left her purse at her desk. "After you." She would say then looking at the woman who had offered her a drink. She gave her a nod and gestured to Mikk
Alas she wasnt an intern, and she was going to be working.. very hard here. She felt it was well deserved and a great opportunity, a long happy, yet nervous sigh left her lips. It was time to take a look around, something she normally avoided. She crossed her arms over her folder she had with her, to write down names and positions, though she didnt need to, it was simply.. helpful. Now she waited, for mikk to show her around.
*the sloth would finally leave his cave of an office after a while, his eyes finding the few in the office to be talking. Though Nester had caught his eye as he watched the vulpine get to know Soria's body a little more then it should for a work environment. At any other company someone in his position would come down on Nester like a sack of bricks, but he was far more lax with such many things around the office. With a smirk and a quick walking pace, he made his way up behind the pair. His paw high as though he was looking for a high five, but when he got up behind the pair. His paw swung down and gave Nester's rump a firm slap. Pocketing his paws as he looks back to Nester after the attention giving swat* "We have that meeting to get to ya know. We can get to know the staff later." *he chuckles and looks to Soria, then to Mikk and Shiishii* "And we have a mandatory Ethics meeting later. Seems one of the other floors has a problem with proper break room cleanliness, so we've gotta make sure everyone is aware of it. See me in the second meeting room." *they had about four meeting rooms, though only one was used every week. Nester and himself would be using another one for a later meeting. He turned and faced Nester as he smiles* "Any news on your end from management?" *he nodded his head away so they could walk elsewhere about management things in a little more privacy*
Mikkaddo stood up and smiled pushing his chair in. "Well then, let's get on with the tour shall we?" He pushed the door open and waited for her, watching the interaction between the Otter and his boss. He'd always thought there might be something going on, now he was all but sure of it. The question was, how involved was the boss, and for that matter how involved was his new associate was, before she came through the door with him he though to ask her about it, but it didn't seem appropriate. Then again neither did the Otter and his boss acting that way. So what the hell? He moved back toward her, letting the door slip closed and said. "Just out of curiosity, and also out of how the hours work for this department, are you . . . dating anyone?"
She gave a slight smile and a curtious nod. "We shall." She would say in a sort of quiet tone. She would grab a note pad and pen and begin out the door behind him. Her head would lift from a doodle she had started to see a sloth. She was sure she had heard of the name, she looked at the door he had traveled from and red the name and gave him a nod. That would be Fen. She was smarter than the average panda bear.
Her head would swiftly turn to mik who had started talking to her, she didnt catch the first part but the last was quite... potent in its strength to penetrate her zoned out focus. She cleared her throat some and her white cheeks would gain a bit of pink as he hesitated. "No, I am not. Though." She cleared her throat again, "I dont quite unerstand how it does perstain to the hours worked in this department. That may be something you may have to elaborate on.." She tried to make is sound more like a joke, but seemingly it may have failed. She simply pressed her notepad to her chest and awaited him to lead her around... to start their tour.
Mikkaddo smiled a bit to himself, biting his tongue in his mouth to keep the smile small and then said after a moment. "Well, the hours for IT is kind of erratic, you could find yourself going home by lunch if it's a slow day, but then there's times, and one in particular lately where the site got hacked, I ended up spending the night here going through the servers to make sure I cleaned out every last bit of corrupted data. If you're dating someone, it can get in the way of that, and this is a very small team . . . considering it consists entirely of you and I." He chuckled and moved to where Fen was "this is where the Sloth works, luckily, he's actually not a slow worker, he does a good job, and I think he went that way somewhere." He moved past it to one of the open spots in the main office room. "These aren't utilized yet, but we're working on expanding, I heard Nester talking about a 24/7 phone staff or something similar." He then moved off to the break room area, pointing out the cabinets, fridge, vending machines and other things. "In here we have all the normal machines and trouble making devices, we have a coffee machine that burns more coffee than it makes, a microwave that tends to not beep when it's done and oh . . . I keep forgetting that's there" he scratched his head looking at it. "An oven . . . not really sure why, but . . . we have an oven" He shrugged and pointed to the vending machines showing the various things that can be bought, and then moved past to the other management offices, most of which were empty, as it was still a small operation, but he stopped at Nester's office and the secretary's desk in front. "This is where the Boss stays, you see this door closed, don't go interrupting him . . . very bad idea."
"Not quite," Nester began. A smirk on his face as he looked to Soira and finding his opening with her hand upon his arm. It was all too obvious he had a thing for her. Perhaps not a relationship thing, at least not yet, but certainly an attraction thing none the less. "Actually, I was thinking that AH!"
The fox jumped an inch into the air at the sudden swat to his rump. His tail giving an instinctive swish afterwards and he swiftly turned to face the sloth with a slight flush to his cheeks. "Fen!" he scolded the sloth, though his subtle grin showed how serious he truly was about the matter. "Not out here. Save it for the meeting," he playfully pretended to whisper though spoke loudly enough for everyone nearby to hear clearly.
"Oh right, we do have a meeting coming up. Well, let me know if anyone comes to fix that damn thing Soira. Oh, and buzz me if my niece, I mean daughter, comes in. Alright?" He gave Soira's hand a soft squeeze with his own before turning back to Fen. "Looks like Mikk took care of some of our hacker problems and memberships seem to be increasing well enough. Forum usage is down this month, but you know how that goes. "
As they chatted, he spotted Mikk giving the new girl the tour. Listening in particularly in regards to the bit about his office. "Listen to him. He knows what he's talking about. I could be naked in there or something," he joked with a chuckle.
Soira smiled gently as she looked to the Fox. "Seems you do have a meeting. Whenever you get done, let me know... beep in on my phone as you know I don't mind, Nester... I have to keep myself entertained somehow around here." Murring out, she squeezed his hand back, only to place her hands on his back to push him toward where the meeting rooms were. "Be safe, and if you two need anything, let me know.. maybe once you are done we can go down to the coffee shop to get something to eat and drink and you can finish telling me what you were thinking." She tilted her head to the side, letting her white hair fall over her shoulder, only as she waved to the two. "Get alot of work done." And with that, she went back to her desk, just to answer the phone as it began to ring, stating the new copier was en-route via 10 minutes. "Thank you. Just come right on up with it." And with that she hang up the phone, going back to checking her mail, which never seemed to stop piling up.
"Oh, I see." She would say quietly regaining some composure. She cleared her throat some and would continue to follow him through the halls looking at the offices and rooms as they pass by, taking notes here and there and being as attentive as she could. She would lift her head as she mentioned the sloth and his office and nester and his, as well as the stove. At least there was something she could make some do with. She cleared her throat a moment and when Nester responded in that manner her cheeks turned a light shade of pink.
"Well then, dont forget the sock.." She said a little hesitant trying to retort. This was why she lacked being a people person especially at her age. Her ears would flick some and she shifted her shoulders. She turned toward Mik and cleared her throat. "Any other place we need to see? Or are we headed striaght to the meeting now?" She waited patiently for an answer, she didnt quiet know what else to say. She gave a nod to soira as she was told she would be around if needed. She really wasnt a socaial butterfly, never was. Mostly it came from schooling which sh ewas sure to quit after some time because of her mind. The things she could have done.
Mikkaddo leaned against a wall, listening as Nester spoke and touched his shoulder saying. "Boss, I got a question for you when you get a chance, see you in the meeting." He looked back to his new associate, "hmm . . . I can't think of anything else, since we're all about the only ones here, at least for now. Let's head on in to the meeting room, we've got a bit of time but it's good to get in to a meeting early . . . it shows dedication." He always tried to show up to meetings and appointments of any kind early, just in case. He'd always noticed if he arrived early, he was fine, but if he tried to be on time he was usually late.