Friday, July 6, 2012

Cashier

cashier
verb. to dismiss from an office, position or membership, usually in disgrace. (usually: be cashiered)
One mistake, that was all it took, she thought, glaring at her monitor unseeingly.

I made one mistake, and if this situation worsens, I’m liable to be cashiered for it, even after all this time with the company.

She thought about the conversation she had just had with her boss, which ended with him asking her why she would try to sabotage a million-dollar account. The accusation left her gasping in disbelief: “No! I would never do such a thing!” she had cried out in protest, trying but failing to quell her tears. "I love my job. I like you. I wouldn’t do that, ever!”

He had ended the meeting and she had returned to her own office then, bewildered and afraid. What happened? Where had it all gone wrong? Tears rolled down her face as she threaded a maze of memory, looking for the wrong turn, glad for once that her desk was positioned so that her back was to the entrance. She had just been removed from all responsibility for the most important account she had ever managed, and wondered how she would ever be able to redeem herself.

Definitions adapted from The New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford University Press, Inc., 2005 (eBook Edition, copyright 2008), and from Webster's Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam Company, Publishers, Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, 1965, depending on which is more convenient to hand.

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