Today was the day. Albert Mitchel had finally had enough. His stupid job and the stupid people who worked there had drove him up one too many walls in the last five years. He was sick of the same topical conversations, and pretending to be interested in the same bullshit. He was especially sick of his boss, Mr. Dresdin. The man was evil incarnate as far as Albert was concerned. The worst sort of callous and concieted traits any human being could posess. He somehow managed to turn "Knowing everything" into an artform and punishment for everyone around him. He was just simply insufferable... a lost cause. The sort of person Albert realized there was no reasoning with, because Mr. Dresdin did not want to be reasoned with. Simple as that. So today, Albert Mitchel was going to quit.

Albert had been psyching himself up all weekend now. Over the night he could not sleep a wink. He rehearsed exactly the sort of verbal beatdown he could not wait to bestow. He let his thoughts run through all the victorious conclusions in his mind. Of this he was sure... No matter how it went down, he would walk away a free and happy man.

By the time he had arrived at the offices, rain was coming down in a torrent. A wicked morning line of severe storms was pushing through the area. The electricity in the air matched the electricity in Albert's eyes. Appropriate... he thought to himself.

There came one last deep breath as Albert accepted what he had to do. Get wet and make a mad dash for the entrance. There was no way to avoid it... He knew that 3 seconds in the rain would have him soaking from head to toe. But he couldnt wait any longer. Now was the time.

Albert kicked the car door open with his foot and then hopped out into the storm. As he slammed the dripping door shut, a crack of thunder erupted from the sky. He made a mad dash towards the entrance, splashing through puddles, getting soaked. Then he saw a figure up ahead holding an umbrella. The figure was gesturing towards him... gesturing to take refuge under it.

By the time he had made it under the umbrella, he realized who the person was... much to his dismay. It was Mr. Dresdin, his boss.

"There ya go! Walk with me!" Mr. Dresdin ordered and the two of them walked side by side through the storm.

Albert felt more than uncomfortable having to brush shoulders with this vile man. He decided to say nothing.

"Its raining cats and dogs!" Mr. Dresdin exclaimed as they walked.

"Y-yeah." Albert tried to play along, but cringing to himself on that overused phrase.

_Cats and dogs? Really? What a moron... _

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"Anyways Al, glad I caught up with you. Ive been meaning to talk to you." Mr. Dresdin said.

"Well, actually..." Albert tried to get his words out, but Mr. Dresdin cut him off.

"You see, we here at the company are a team. And as a team we need our best to step up, and our worst to step down or get better. Everyone has a role to play here, you understand?" Mr. Dresdin explained. Then he continued on before Albert could even answer. "Now I know things here havnt been as good as I hoped this year. I think we are going to take another loss this quarter. So what I am trying to say is..."

Then albert found his voice. He felt what was coming and he would be damned if he let this pompus man get ahead on him. Not today. Not ever.

"NO YOU LISTEN!" Albert exploded, pointing his finger directly into Mr. Dresdin's chest. "You are the most dispicable man I have ever met! You want to know WHY this company is failing!? Just look in a damn mirror! You bring absolutely NO motivation to the team, you sit there in your king sized office and play solitare all day long and the only time you stick your head out is to yell at someone for absolutely no reason! You THINK you know everything, but you dont know shit! You don't even know how to turn on your own damn computer!!! How you ever got to be manager, or even managed to get a degree, is totally beyond me. I wouldnt even let you walk my dog! And if you didnt have this job mister... if you were not the slave driver that you are, Id be stepping over you in an alleyway, wiping my shoes on your face!"

Albert then took in an exaggerated huge breath and yelled out with all his might, spitting into Mr. Dresdin's face. "I QUIT!"

Mr. Dresdin came to a complete stop and stared at Albert, dumbfounded. His eyes turned wide and his mouth dropped open. This was something he was clearly not expecting.

"What I was going to say was," Mr. Dresdin replied, now with a skeptic dissapproving glance. "Is that the company has not been recognizing your talents and that we wanted to give you a promotion and pay raise."

"Oh." was all Albert could say.

"Yes. Oh." Mr. Dresdin repeated. Then without warning, the boss stormed off with his umbrella towards the building... Leaving Albert in the rain.