Mars Short Story

I had a long day at work, attempting to figure out if there really was life on mars, my eyes were barley open, anytime soon I was sure to be asleep. You see my job wasn’t easy, I woke up every day around 7 . Spent about 8 long hours of work, plus the 1 hour commute home. Being a single parent, I then had to rush home, get my 4 kids off of the bus, help with their homework, and cook a healthy dinner.
My job was at the P.L.O.(Planet Life Organization). Every Monday through Saturday, I was stuck there until about 3:00 pm, then went home to get my kids. While at work I spent most of my time either arguing with workers, or looking at recent data. One of the most interesting planets to me was Mars. Growing up people often talked about Mars, and wondered if it was a planet that could someday have the potential of life. Most days I spent in front of the computer, tracing a live camera on one of the satellites orbiting around Mars. Usually not much was going on, the occasional blur would come across the camera though. The most boring days were days when all of this was going on.

“Michelleeeee, theres nothing to do in this place.” Said one worker.
“Seriously, this is the most boring job in the whole wide world.” Said another
“Agreed, why don’t we just leave, no one will even notice we are gone.” Said another

You wouldn’t think they were actually serious when they said these things, but that was not the case. At least 10 days out of every month, they went out. Sometimes it was bowling for a few hours, other times a walk in the park. Usually they got lucky, and when the boss stopped in they were somehow always working. I would never go with, but was always invited. It was hard turning them down, but I knew the fun for a couple of hours wouldn’t beat the consequences if I got caught.
Today was just another day, off they all went to the local bakery. To gab over warm vanilla cappuccinos, and steaming hot chocolate. Little did they know that this was one of their last days of work. The boss was furious when he saw all of the workers, but me, missing.

“Where are the others, I hired them for a reason, we have work that needs to be done” he said.
“They went out to got some food, at the bakery.”
“How long have they been gone?”
“All day, I am just here working.” I said
“Praise you, I’m glad to have at least on employee who cares about this place.”

The next day I went into work, and found it empty. I sat down at my desk, and out came my boss.

“The others are gone Michelle, looks like we need to put up signs, and an add in the newspaper.”

This news was unusually good to me, I was happy that we could finally get some people working here, that would actually work. A week after we held interviews and managed to find some potential workers. We found a 30 year-old male named Tucker, who had past experience, and a good work ethic. That night he was hired, and with him he brought some of his friends, Leona, Karen, Samuel, Joshua, and Drake. Not one of them was anything less than perfect, we hired them all.
Finally I was excited to get back to work again. With people who actually respected, and cared for our company.