023 Arrogant manager

Too many things happened in the last few days.

I hope you remember the incident where I was breastfed by my dad's sister when my parents went to the capital. They went to get mom's leave extended. But the application got rejected.

Dad later used his influence to find what actually happened. Apparently, mom's manager interfered and he made sure that the application gets rejected. My parents were really angry. But they decided not to do anything as she didn't want to start a fight.

Mom was still angry. So she decided to use the casual leaves she had. Mom was working there for years. She never took any leave. So she had all the leaves carried over over years. That was enough to get her three more months of leave.

Anyway, two days ago, mom received a request from the office to return to the job immediately.

I am almost six months old and started feeding on liquid food. Also, I am a well-behaved baby compared to other babies. So mom finally decided to return to the job.

I was a bit disappointed. I really wanted to be with mom all the time. But there was nothing I could do. I played dumb for the last three months. Now, I have to grow up.

It made me sad. Usually, kids want to grow up fast so that they could do what adults could do. But I was an adult once and I knew that being an adult was no fun. I wanted nothing more than be my mom's poopy baby.

Anyway, we went to her office.

The shameless manager welcomed us with a wide smile.

"Things were never the same without you." He said some random pleasantries.

"Is that why you interfered to get my leave application rejected?" Mom asked without any mercy.

"Hihihi... Your son is growing up fast." He shamelessly laughed and poked my cheeks. He was trying to change the topic.

How can I forgive the monster who was forcing my mom to return to the job? I grabbed his finger and bit as hard as I could.

"Ouuuchh..." He cried and yanked his finger from my mouth.

"His teeth are also growing fast." Mom commented with a smile. She didn't even bother to apologize.

"Indeed."

"Does it hurt?"

"No... It's just a scratch." he controlled his anger as he replied with a forced smile.

I smiled in satisfaction. My bite was quite good. I was absolutely sure that his finger would hurt for at least a week.

"Please fill this form." He handed out a form to mom.

Mom took a quick look at the form. At the same time, the manager was glaring at me.

I pulled my tongue and made a funny face at him.

His eyes bulged in disbelief. A six month old baby was making faces at him!

I wanted to pull more pranks on him. But unfortunately, someone came and mom moved out of his office.

Mom sat in the common area to fill out the form. Her colleagues came to greet her.

"Madam, I am the temporary substitute for you." A young guy greeted mom. I actually have a bit of memory of him from my past life. He used to work for my dad when I was in school.

"Ohh... Thanks for the hard work. I heard you were pretty good." Mom praised him a bit.

"Madam, I have a request." He looked quite nervous.

"What?"

"I need just three more days to complete six months in temporary service."

"Really?"

"Yes. If madam adjusts a bit, I can complete six months."

"Didn't you tell this to the manager?"

"He... doesn't like me." The guy was very nervous.

"Ok. I will talk to him." Mom went into the manager's office again.

This guy was a temporary substitute. There was no guarantee for his job. But if he completes six months in temporary service, he will get preference when they look for converting temporary staff to permanent. So he wanted to complete six months.

"Sir, I will join after three days."

"Why?" Manager's face changed on hearing it.

"That boy will complete six months of service in three days. Also, I am in no rush to join. So I can wait three more days."

"Riya, you don't understand. He is not that good at his job."

"We both know that that's not the case. He is pretty good."

"He doesn't have a good personality."

"What's wrong with his personality?"

"He gave a love letter to my daughter when he was in 6th standard." Finally, the manager told the reason.

"6th standard? He was probably eleven years old at that time. Are you taking revenge for that?" Mom was a bit furious after hearing his reasoning.

"You don't have to worry about my private matters. You can either join now or you won't have your job when you come back after three days." The manager threatened mom.

Poor choice of words. I felt pity for the manager. He dared to threaten mom. Only an idiot would do something like that.

"Fine." Mom said as she walked out of the office.

She went to the cabin that used to be hers. The temporary guy respectfully offered his seat to mom.

"Go get me form xx and a plain paper," Mom ordered the boy. This was different from the form the manager asked mom to fill out.

"This..." He hesitated a bit.

"Just do as I say."

"Yes madam." He went to find the things mom asked.

In the meantime, mom called dad and talked. But I didn't hear what she said as I was taken away by her colleagues.

In ten minutes, mom filled out the form and the paper. Then she sent the guy the get three sets of photocopies of the pages. The guy was a bit reluctant and tried to convince mom not to do it. But mom simply ordered him to do as he said.

After doing all this, she kept it into four covers.

Then they went to the manager's cabin again. Mom gave the cover to him.

"There was no need to put it in cover." He happily took the cover from mom and opened the form.

His face changed instantly.

"What... Why are you resigning?" He asked in shock.

"I just want to spend three more days at home with my baby. Since it is not possible, I am resigning." Mom replied.

"What kind of logic is that? Can't you get a nanny or something?" He was furious.

"You don't have to worry about my private matters." Mom replied with a sarcastic smile.

"Riya, think carefully. You have two kids. How will you manage the expenses if you give up your job now?"

"As I said before, you don't have to worry about my private matters. Also, I know that you don't really care about me. You want me here because it is advantageous for you."

I smiled widely.

I think I have mentioned it already. In my previous life, mom resigned from her job after a fight with her manager. I didn't know the details as to how it happened. Now, I finally understood the real reason.

"Riya, you are young. Why do you want to take such a drastic measure." The manager tried to convince mom.

"I am tired of you." Mom replied.

"Me?"

"Yes. You. At first, you didn't want to extend my pregnancy leave. When I got it sanctioned from the capital, you messed it up again. Now you want me to join immediately just because you don't want a youngster to have a better chance of getting a permanent job. That too for the silly reason of giving a love letter to your daughter when he was preteen."

Mom continued without pausing. "You want to control everything and take revenge for even silly matters. You want to feel powerful by torturing those who are loyal to you. You are an incorrigible mouth farter. I am tired of this. So I am resigning. Do what you can."

"I won't accept it." The manager threw the cover and my mom's resignation letter back at her.

Mom didn't bother to reply. She simply picked up the stuff and left.

Everyone was craning their neck and looking at what was happening. Mom didn't hold back her voice. So everyone in the office, including the commoners who came to get things done heard what she said.

After leaving the office, mom met the temporary substitute.

"Post these today itself." Mom gave two covers to him. One was the original resignation letter to the capital and the other was the copy of it to the manager.

After that, we went to the nearby bus stop and waited there. Some of her colleagues chased us and tried to convince mom. But mom didn't change her mind.

Once everyone left, we sat silently at the bus stop. Mom was in deep thoughts. Even though she took the decision within seconds, she had been considering it for a while. Still, it was a bit difficult for mom. So I decided to cheer her up.

"Woo... Gooo... waa..." I talked gibberish.

"Hihihi... Are you happy little devil?" Mom asked.

"Aaa..."

"Now we can be together always."

"Oooo..."

"..." We continued talking as we waited. Just me and mom. Alone at a deserted bus stop. Talking to each other and forgetting all the worries.

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(Will be continued in the next chapter...)

Interesting observation.

Today, I found that among the top 50 books under the tag 'India', 49 books are romance novels. Only this book (Rank 20) is not a romance novel.

This is the extra chapter this week for reaching 20th rank among 22K books under the tag India.

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