Mason Brick and Tile – Gayle Beveridge – 2500 words (Feel Good / General)

What is going on at Mason Brick and Tile? Are they having a party or going postal? Fifteen years is a long time to spend in one job, even longer to be put upon. Can recompense be made in time or will Henderson be pushed to take drastic action.

Mason Brick and Tile

Fourteen years and fifty-one weeks.  That’s how long Henderson has been with Mason Brick and Tile.  For the last three weeks he’s been counting the days.  Before that he was counting the weeks, before that the months and before that, year after tedious year.

George Mason has that auspicious day, one week away, marked and highlighted in his diary.  Henderson will be the first to reach the fifteen years of service.  No-one else has stayed with Mason Brick and Tile for ten years, nor even five.  George Mason knows this to be so; he’s checked the records several times.  Through some unfortunate circumstance, he isn’t sure what; the occasion of Henderson’s ten years of service had passed unnoticed.  So determined is he that this will not happen again, he has drawn up a project plan.

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