This isn't a horror story per se, but this is what my job really was like (before laid off) and may work well for getting a character inserted into a LARP. I worked for a department based in Charlotte, on a national project, with nobody in the office building I was in working with me. Many of them encountered me on projects (I knew people, and they knew who I was and what I did), but my work was completely separate. And my boss would generally miss our meetings where she'd tell me what was going on, and then call randomly later. (I actually wondered whether she'd call me to lay me off, or whether I'd first know when I couldn't log in.)
And my first job after college, the office manager would hire her family to be admins, controlled the petty cash box, and was always out sick. And the office handyman was mentally disabled (really, he was what would have been called slow 50 years ago), and he had so much trouble understanding which sodas people wanted him to order for the Coke machine. (I think really I'm just giving you good ideas for NPCs who can turn up to make things happen.)
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Date: 2009-03-26 03:06 pm (UTC)And my first job after college, the office manager would hire her family to be admins, controlled the petty cash box, and was always out sick. And the office handyman was mentally disabled (really, he was what would have been called slow 50 years ago), and he had so much trouble understanding which sodas people wanted him to order for the Coke machine. (I think really I'm just giving you good ideas for NPCs who can turn up to make things happen.)