Luc just shook his head. His first day at work was turning out to be more than he expected.
“Well, we have to hire someone to do trenching and some other rough out work,” he said.
“I know, three jobs at last count,” said Ginny.
“Make that five. You walked away from the desk for ten minutes,” said Luc. “Do we have anyone in the family capable?”
Ginny thought for a moment. A few came to mind, but most were either too old or not experienced enough. “Not off the top of my head. Let me call Ysabel and see if she has any ideas,” she said.
“Okay, because we both know that Jeff would have a fit if I climbed in the trencher,” said Luc.
“Not just Jeff,” said Meg. Ginny nodded in agreement. As far as they were concerned, the only place Luc was allowed was under their observation.
“Fine. Ginny, find me someone. Human, shifter, I don’t care. I have to have someone to get these jobs done. And yes, I took a look at the board. Not bad really, but we are at least two weeks behind where I’d like to be at this point in the month. At this rate, we will need one tech and one outside man,” he finished.
Ginny nodded and headed back to her desk to start making calls.
“So, what are you going to do with your day?” asked Meg.
“I’m going to attempt to straighten my office up and stay out of Ginny’s way. And you?” he asked in return.
“Well, from the looks of it, I’ve got two clients to send information to and then crunch data for one of your jobs. I got caught up last week with most of the backlog. Oh, and there is a new client to contact on Wednesday,” she finished.
“A new client?” he asked.
“Yeah. One of the universities in the area needs employment data cross referenced to businesses in the area and the availability of employees,” she said.
“How long will that take?” Luc asked.
“Depends on how many variables there are. Maybe a week, or maybe ten minutes,” she said. “However, nothing is getting done with you sitting on my desk.”
Luc sighed, blew her a kiss and headed for his office.
*
“I have three interviews for you starting at 2pm,” said Ginny as she walked into Luc’s office. He had papers piled all over and tools stacking up in a corner. She didn’t think she’d caused this big of a mess, but…
“Okay, but could we use the conference room rather than here?” he asked.
“Sure. What’s with the grand shuffle?” she asked pointing to all the piles.
“Well, I started filing bits and pieces and then realized that certain things didn’t make sense, so I started to re-arrange things,” he said. “Then there were all the tools and,…”
“You got carried away?” Ginny asked with a smile.
“Guilty. I’ve had way too much time to think, and now that I can actually do something, I’m trying to do it all at once,” he admitted.
“It’s okay. I’m headed to the Quick Stop. Do you want a Dr. Pepper?” she asked. It wasn’t even lunch time yet, but she could see he was dragging.
“I’d love one. Oh, and some beef jerky bites too,” he said fishing in his pocket for his wallet.
“Put your money away! My treat. See you in fifteen minutes,” she said and headed out the door.
Luc looked around at the piles again and wondered if this had been such a good idea. He really did need a new filing system, but now he wasn’t so sure. Maybe what he really needed was another filing cabinet. Heading out the door, he saw that Kevin’s office door was open.
“Hey Kevin,” Luc called from the doorway. “Do you have a spare file cabinet?”
“Hey Luc, good to see you at work. File cabinet? Um… No, but there might be one in the warehouse. I’ll call Peter,” he said and picked up the phone. “I’ll get back to you in a few minutes,” he said.
Luc nodded and headed back to his office. More space was always a good thing. When he got back to his office, he started tossing things like junk mail and catalogs that were over six months old. That quickly took care of three piles.
“Hey you, ” called Ginny from the door. In her hand was a Dr. Pepper and a bag of beef jerky nuggets.
“Ginny, you are a lifesaver,” said Luc as he took them from her.
“I’ll remember that,” she said as she headed off to drop other snacks to Meg and Kevin.
Luc sat down and opened the jerky. He had eaten half a dozen pieces before he realized just how hungry he was. Looking up at the clock, it was only 11:45am. “Damn! I’m starved,” he thought. Taking a swig of Dr. Pepper, he ate another piece of jerky and then went back to sorting papers.
“Luc, Kevin said you needed this,” said Peter.
Luc looked up to see Peter standing in the hall with a file cabinet on a dolly.
“I sure do. Put it over by the closet,” said Luc and moved to clear a path. Five minutes later and the file cabinet was in place and ready for use.
“Thanks Peter,” he said.
“No problem Luc. How’s Meg doing?” he asked.
“She’s doing okay. Work is keeping her busy,” said Luc.
“Good. I was hoping that everything this weekend didn’t weird her out,” Peter said. He’d had his fair share of human girlfriends, and some just didn’t cope as well as others.
“No, she is handling it pretty well. It feels good to get back into a normal routine too,” said Luc.
Peter nodded in understanding and headed out. He had new space in his warehouse and didn’t want it filled up with boxes by the time he got back. UPS was due in by 1pm.
Luc began to fill the file cabinet with all of last year’s files and tools only used for certain jobs went in the bottom. This gave him plenty of room in the file cabinets behind his desk for this years files and his various tool bags. He had one for networks, another for PC repair and a third for wiring. He almost had his desk clear when a scent caressed his nose. He looked up to see Meg standing there with a bag in her hand.
“Lunch time,” she said with a smile.