Seulgi was employed by a mid-sized engineering firm. They designed specific parts to be manufactured for both foreign and domestic cars. Her position was a challenge because there was no hard set definition of what her position actually did. She considered herself a general specialist because she had to cover a multitude of things. And she had to do them well.

  Seulgi had a talent for communication, so she answered clients' questions about parts and processes because the engineers couldn’t put things in an understandable, non-technical way. These questions could be frustrating because she had to break things down into words that non-tech people could understand.

  On the other hand, she had to extrapote what the clients were trying to say, even when they did not have the vocabury to know what to ask.

  She worked with the accounting department to expin to the clients why they were charged what prices for which parts despite the contracts already stating things in bck and white.

  As some of these clients had exceptionally prickly personalities, and Seulgi was the only one who could handle them. She was the only one who could say ‘If you look at parts 3, 4, and 5 in the contract, it says right there….’ and not have these pernicious clients blow up in a tantrum.

  Due to her skillful handling of these people, she frequently got little bonus gifts from both the upper management for dealing with these clients that were difficult, and from the clients themselves that understood that they were a challenge to deal with.

  She worked with all sorts of other people as well. She worked with the VPs, VIPs, managers, floor supervisors, and various other higher-ups to be able to transte into the engineers' nguage what was expected of them and reverse transte what the engineers said back to management.

  Occasionally, she had to censor the messages to remain polite. She was a proper dy after all, and would not repeat some things verbatim.

  In short, she was the pivot point that kept most of the company chugging along. She did too much for too little money and even less recognition. There were a few people who took her for granted. Most people knew better.

  So, when some arrogant new manager, who didn’t know their pce and that it was better to be on her good side, thought that she was some lowly office minion and could be ordered around and get them a cup of coffee, someone would quietly, but firmly, expin why this was A Very Bad Idea.

  The very few that didn’t listen found out the hard way that she can be quite stubborn when pestered too far. One such Jejune fellow actually spped her butt after demanding coffee. The first indication that this was Unwise was the jaws of those around them dropping. The second indication was people at a literal dead run, leaving the area. The third was the near mechanical rotation of her head, turning to look at him. More like a turret locking onto a target.

  Even the CEO turned around and exited the room when he saw this. He knew that he would not have to take care of anything, she was perfectly capable of taking care of this on her own. Granted, he would have to have words for this person, if there was anything left after she was done.

  Not that she wouldn’t do it, of course. Seulgi was a bright soul, she was always happy to help. She was occasionally unable to say ‘No’ when she really ought to. She was willing to take on almost every burden thrown her way, whether it was her job or not.

  However, she was usually busy with her own work to do. That work was frequently more important than whatever person that was attempting to order her around was doing.

  Along with the Office Goddess title, she was also the Office Madonna. She charmed everyone with her eye smile alone. Even when wearing an N95 face mask, she could still unintentionally melt hearts. Absolutely no one was safe.

  Behind her back, everyone (even the CEO) had a nickname for her: Baby Bear. Since she would occasionally knot up her hair into two buns on top of her head, the ‘space buns’ looked like bear ears. So, she did look like a baby bear, though she denied it. So, out of respect, no one called her that where she would hear. Even angry and pouting, she was still the most beautiful woman most people knew.

  Seulgi was something of a manager of an unofficial team of three to six people - depending on the day of the week and whatever task or tasks that she was working on.

  Technically, she worked her position alone despite the fact that she had three cronies that frequently worked for her, Nayeon, Jackson, and Yeji. Seulgi thought people just liked to be helpful, obliviously unaware that there was actually vicious infighting to see who could get to help her first. There was a revolving cadre of people who would “just stop by” to check and see if she needed anything – a document found, a price update on a part, which manager needed to know what part that needed to go where.

  People would bring her coffee. Or tea. Or whatever whim she came up with; after all what was the point of having minions if you couldn’t have a small bit of fun with them?

  What she didn’t know was that she once absently asked the new CFO for a bottle of water. That grandfatherly old soul was amused enough to get her the bottle of water without telling her who he was. When, ter that same day, she found out in a high-level meeting who the new CFO was, her shocked face was priceless. His smile at her rosebud blushed cheeks and nervous smile made his gentle teasing all the more worthwhile.

  Normally, Seulgi thoroughly enjoyed what she did, and who she did it with, and was more-or-less fulfilled. Rarely did our jubint heroine have a bad day. She let those days affect her even less often. But occasionally, Murphy’s Law was out to get her and would not let anything go smoothly. Today was one such day.