After joining the executive office of Wayne Enterprises, Merry thought she understood why being the Wayne CEO's secretary was one of the company's most high-turnover jobs.
On the one hand, the Wayne CEO was a fairly decent boss: he paid well, didn't micromanage, and never meddled in his employees' work. Plus, his whole family was really good-looking.
On the other hand, the Wayne CEO was a complete airhead. He'd postponed a meeting three times because he was nowhere to be found. Just setting up the conference room again and again, then calling and sending out notices, was enough to make any office worker despair. When paperwork needed his signature, he'd lock his office door and sleep, vanishing for a whole week while suppliers flooded his inbox with question marks. After spending two hours preparing the meeting minutes, Merry discovered that the CEO's only contribution had been asking whether the lunch restaurant served curry beef soup. Every week, the CEO called to expense the repair costs for his wrecked luxury car and the medical bills for broken bones from skydiving and skiing, but never had even half a receipt.
How much could anyone be expected to put up with? Who could possibly be his secretary?
The good news: Merry wasn't the Wayne CEO's secretary, thank goodness.
The bad news: Merry was the executive operations director of the Wayne CEO's office, the head of the executive office, and the CEO's assistant. In other words, the scapegoat, the human signpost, and the punching bag.
Fortunately, if you set Wayne aside, Merry's job was still quite satisfying. Nine to five, excellent pay, and a very responsible boss, Mr. Fox, who was good at finding the missing CEO and forcing him to work. Half the time Merry was at work, she could browse forums, avidly following netizens' discussions about the Wayne CEO's romance with Batman. That wasn't slacking off, it was monitoring public opinion.
But the good times didn't last. First, Batman's enemies took turns kidnapping the Wayne CEO, forcing Merry to work overtime like crazy. Then her boss, Mr. Fox, was attacked at home by Batman's enemies and suffered a stroke. Somehow, Merry was promoted to acting CEO. Just as she was getting used to working twice as many hours, Gotham was rocked by shocking news: the Wayne CEO had accidentally killed someone and was now on the run after escaping prison. Wayne's stock price plunged overnight.
Sitting in the Wayne CEO's office, Merry clutched her hair. "I don't want to lose my job!"
To keep from getting fired, she had no choice but to step in and sort everything out.
After all, that's what connections are for, right?
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A sudden burst of inspiration:
An office worker's daily grind, with a protagonist who is a well-connected parachuted hire. It has a strange overpowered-protagonist vibe, and the love interest might be one of the adopted sons who often shows up at the company (?)
Coming soon. If you're interested, please add it to your collection XD
Blurb to be revised. 2024.9.25
Theme: Justice may be late, but employees are late to work
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