The Retirement Party

Every employee in the company had a singular focus: the retirement party. And setting up this companywide celebration is what they planned to do.

After all the moratorium on companywide celebrations had been lifted. Everyone had forgotten about Billy Montague and that rogue banana peel and that unexpected trip to the emergency room. No, this was going to be the safest, most reliable retirement party in company history.

Five minutes after his shift Mack Devereux entered the room. He saw the decorations, the fanfare and immediately dropped to his knees.

Maybe next time just a simple gold watch would do.