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Monday. 10/17/05. 02:11:39 AM
Ryo didn't exactly get any good answers till he got to the
employees of the 'graveyard' shift, the overnight shift that
Eiji loved so much when he was alive. All that Ryo got from
those who have met him during the day were just simple "He was a
nice guy, always smiled even when he looked like he was occupied
with something else." Or "I loved how he would just pile food
onto his plate and stuffed it into his mouth. I asked him once
how he could eat like that, and he told me that he just ate once
a day, and that one plateful like that would be enough to last
him the entire day. The kid made me laugh." Or "He was always
ready to try out anything we suggested, and would never pass up
on going out to a bar to drink. The guy was a crazy drinker, but
he would look like he was awake even when he was passed out
drunk, and he would be climbing things and jumping around when
he had enough alcohol content into his veins."
The only thing Ryo got that was worth the time was when he was
up in sales, talking to one of the supervisors that Eiji worked
with, but now out of the front desk department and up in the
sales department, and an old colleague from the front desk who
transferred down to the housekeeping department to become a
supervisor, people moving on as Eiji stayed behind, people
moving on as Eiji continued there.
"He was one of the only people who actually worked down there,"
The girl who moved down to the supervising position said. "Even
though he would always have fits of anger from the work. I think
he was known for just coming back to the office and kicking
chairs around just to get his anger out." She smiled as she
remembered about it. "I think he calmed down after a while." She
looked down as she sighed. "He was always ready to help though,
never relaxing down unless everyone else was too. I think he
felt guilty from not doing anything while others were doing.
"I remember they fired him back a few months ago, a week or so
after I left front desk. From the rumors, I heard that he got
his final warning for obeying a front desk supervisor. When he
got back, he told his manager about it, and the guy sort of just
shrugged it off and said that he should have thought about it,
even though he would have gotten written up for not obeying the
supervisor."
"What did he think about that?" Ryo asked in intrigue.
"He was pissed. I heard that he stopped caring about his work
after that, and started to just do the bare minimum just to get
by." She paused. "It must hurt to be betrayed after you've
worked so hard to make something run."
She then got nearer, and lowered her voice. "I heard that they
tagged on other offenses that he didn't do either, probably
thinking that he would get fired and not come back again, so it
wouldn't have been found."
"How did he get rehired back?" Ryo asked as he wrote on more
notes on his pad.
"When he told his roommate, Brett Day, who was working at the
phone section at the time, it pissed Brett off. The guy told his
co-workers and the entire front desk department went into
chaos."
"What?" Ryo was surprised, considering the real life Eiji that
he knew wasn't that much of a presence.
"Yeah, I heard it pissed most of them off, and one of them was
even so hurt that she started crying." She paused. "They had a
party planned that night, and many thought Eiji wasn't going to
show up because of his getting fired.
"But he did. And the stories pretty much spread through the
party and people got behind him. Most of the people, including
his co-workers, were going to quit the next day because of the
injustices." She laughed as she said this. "So the management
had no choice, and they called Eiji the next day and rehired him
back, pushing his firing write up to just a final warning."
Ryo was impressed by that. Maybe Eiji wasn't as dead as he
thought in real life. Maybe Eiji didn't want to die. |
