Game of Blogs – Memory Intrigues – Chapter 2
I am participating in the Game of Blogs challenge organized by BlogAdda. It’s a collaborative novel writing competition. Our team is Dynamic Word Weavers. Links to: Chapter 1, Chapter 3.
Chapter – 2
Tara, a senior reporter at the News Broadcasting Channel 24 x 7 x 365, got up from her desk and was about to leave the office when she noticed the Sub-editor walking towards her. ‘What is she going to come up with now?’ Tara wondered but put up a fake smile anyway.
The sub-editor came up to her and flashed a wider-than-normal smile. “Where are you going, Tara?” She asked.
“I guess I sent my schedule yesterday to you and the Editor. You guys even approved it,” Tara said, coldly.
“Oh, I forgot. You are doing an interview with that film director, aren’t you?” the Sub-editor said. She continued in a mocking tone, “It’s an important assignment I guess, considering they are our client and buy ad spots on our channel, occasionally.”
Tara took a deep breath, bit her teeth, and said, “I am already running late. If you want to tell me something-”
The Sub-editor intervened – “Aren’t you covering the building collapse case?”
“But that was assigned to Sanjeev, yesterday,” Tara said, referring to a senior colleague, but looked at the Sub-editor doubtfully.
“Actually, no. Sanjeev has a training program today. The case has been allocated to Nikhil,” the Sub-editor said, and smiled.
Tara understood why the Sub-editor was generous with her smiles, today. She looked towards the closed door of the Editor’s cabin and murmured, “What the-” and started walking quickly towards the Editor’s cabin. She pushed the door open without the usual customary knock and found the Editor engaged in a phone call.
“I’ll talk to you later,” the Editor cut the call and looked at Tara.
“I am sorry I interrupted your conversation,” Tara said, with a cold voice.
“That’s not a problem at all. I am always available to all my journalists, he replied, with a little smile on his lips. “Aren’t you supposed to do an interview today morning?”
“You know I can postpone that interview to any other day,” She said. “I heard that you’ve allocated the building collapse coverage to Nikhil?”
“Yes. I thought you were busy with the interview and-”
Tara interrupted – “Cut the crap. Nikhil is five years my junior. How can you assign such an important assignment to him when a senior reporter is present in the same city?”
The Editor turned his face towards the computer monitor and placed his hands on the mouse. Tara’s eyes widened and she was breathing heavily. “I asked you a question,” She reminded him.
The Editor typed something hastily on his keyboard, clicked the mouse, and then looked at Tara. “Yes, where were we? Oh that – Look, allocating the right resource for the news leads that come to me is under my discretion. I am not obligated to select the senior most person always,” he said and went back to working on his computer.
“But-” Tara protested. He waved his hand dismissively, urging Tara to leave. Tara shrugged and turned back.
“If you prefer to work on certain assignments, create your own leads,” the Editor said just before Tara walked out of the room and closed the door behind her with a bang.
‘Becoming a pet and nodding one’s head to whatever the boss says seems to work very well in this office,” She mumbled rather loudly and walked out of the office.
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