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“Only problem is, I’m wildly attracted to her,” I finished.
“Ahh,” Sean said. “And?”
“Well, that’s just it,” I said.
Sean and Leo exchanged a look and the waitress returned with a new drink for Sean, who took it and waited for her to leave.
“I don’t see the problem,” he said. “You hire the best, most qualified person for the job. Screw what anyone thinks. If you end up dating, well…”
“Then you deal with it then,” Leo said. “It’s playing with fire, but you know better than to get burned.”
“Bobby was very adamant,” I began.
“Bobby is an old man,” Sean said. “Come on, is she actually the most qualified?”
“Yes.”
“Hire her,” he said. “Let the chips fall where they may. Speaking of chips though. You guys hungry?”
I laughed.
“I don’t eat chips, you know that.”
“Get fucked,” he laughed back. “You can eat a salmon steak with a hint of rosemary and no carbs, Captain Shredded. I’m going to have a burger and chips and do a few extra sit-ups tomorrow to compensate.”
“Yeah,” Leo laughed, “don’t meal-shame us.”
ChapterFive
Julia
Doing this the old school way was annoying. I liked it better when I could do a Zoom interview and get it over with from the comfort of my apartment back in New York. But now, and here especially, everything was in person. I had to speak to an actual human being within enough distance that I could smell their breath.
It wasn’t that I hated being out among people. I just didn’t like the interview process at all. It was demeaning and needlessly complicated. If I gave you my résuméand cover letter, and we had an interview, why was I having to fill out an application with all the same information on it? It didn’t make sense.
I was applying for a variety of jobs, though. Sitting in the half of the bar that was still functional, while Lena and Mom went about moving things around and discussing how they would reopen, I skimmed through useless job websites on my laptop while also navigating applications on my phone.
“Any luck?” Lena asked as she came over, bringing a water bottle with her for me. I cracked it open and took a deep gulp.
“Maybe,” I said. “Not much else in the corporate world, so high salary jobs are probably out. It leaves me with retail, warehouse, and service industry stuff.”
“Well, you’ve got plenty of experience in service,” Lena said.
“And I would like to avoid any more,” I said. “I was thinking warehouse jobs might not be the worst. I can zone out while I do manual labor.”
“You? Doing manual labor?” Lena laughed.
“What? I’m strong,” I said.
“Strong, yes,” she said. “But you hated getting the truck when it showed up here. You think you’d be good at shuffling boxes for Amazon?”
“Maybe,” I said. “I don’t know. I’ve never tried. Maybe I’d be awesome at it.”
“Or you’d break down in a week and come crawling back to the bar,” Lena said.
“Don’t like that,” I said, shaking my head. “Retail maybe?”
“From the girl whose motto is ‘The Customer Is Not Only Not Always Right, But Is Usually A Fuckin’ Idiot’?”
