Brian held the door open for the company director, a much older man who looked like his eye sockets were receding and his cheeks were about to start hanging, but still wore a striped blazer and drove an open top Porsche. The director stopped in his tracks as he remembered something. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cAh, I\u2019ve just remembered something,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brian braced himself. He was constantly waiting for bad news. Being the head of Meletab had not been easy, as he constantly had to fight against public opinion that online gaming on a tablet was just not viable, amongst other things. After having worked in various companies, this was his most well paid yet most challenging job yet. He kept wondering if the pains in the side of his chest were a sign of stress or a heart attack and all his hair had left him, along with his wife and kids. But he had cocaine, piles and piles of it. He was one of the best talkers in the business. \u201cSay hello to my little friend!\u201d he would say, as he invited party goers to have a line, and strangely, during these industry parties, he could chat to anyone, impress them all, and sell anything<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cOh yeah, so, we\u2019re cancelling Meletab.\u201d The boss was quite nonchalant about it, while Brian\u2019s already-shattered world fell apart, as it seemed all his attempts to impress with his endless thunder on stage, for example, as he didn\u2019t wear a black poloneck like the others, but an innovative T-shirt and tie combination-<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cGood work on that, by the way,\u201d the boss interrupted his meltdown and gave him an old fashioned chop to the side of Brian\u2019s arm. \u201cWe\u2019ll be relying on you for the next product launch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBut sir,\u201d said Brian, \u201cwe\u2019ve still got hundreds of software titles and apps and devices to launch!\u201d The potential cost of cancelling these dumbfounded him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The boss chuckled. \u201cCancel them. If there are any parties bound to finish a product, let them, or just release them. The meletab has done its job. We\u2019re moving on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Brian didn\u2019t get it. He had never failed, or at least, had jumped ship before anything sank. The boss noticed his glazed over look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cBrian, don\u2019t give this any more energy, the job was simply to get our name into each market, and there\u2019s plenty more to do.\u00a0 Sad about it?\u00a0 Buy an iPad, it\u2019s way better.\u00a0 OK?\u00a0 Are we clear?\u00a0 Good, Mary will keep you posted about a new dazzling potentially bullshit thing that you\u2019re going to launch, or we can whip up a severance package, no problem. Ok? Now fuck off.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Brian held the door open for the company director, a much older man who looked like his eye sockets were receding and his cheeks were about to start hanging, but still wore a striped blazer and drove an open top Porsche. The director stopped in his tracks as he remembered something. \u201cAh, I\u2019ve just remembered… Continue reading 3.4 Careers Brian<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-glassinthesnow","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":121,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orochinagi.com\/book\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}