Morning Meeting Time

A soft ding rang in my ears.

A window only I could see materialized before me.

The so-called Bojichang turned out to be surprisingly entertaining.

Some kind of applied physics theory, maybe?

In this other world, the moment I exerted influence on something, I could immediately see the status of the creature I’d affected.

Lee Miyoung’s taming rate had climbed higher than I’d expected.

Once that rate hit 100 percent, she’d become a dog who offered me perfect, absolute loyalty… right?

“Sihyun-ah, what are you thinking so hard about? We should head down soon. Morning meeting time’s almost here.”

Morning meeting?

Morning meeting, huh…

Back when I still lived in the original world, the morning meeting had been one of the parts of the workday I hated most.

On the surface, morning meetings were for discussing the team’s direction and new project proposals. That was the official story, anyway.

In reality, the morning meeting was simply a public stage where team members tore into one another.

As expected, the main targets of the roasting were always either the original world’s Yu Sihyun or Assistant Manager Seonghyeon.

Because the entire team was present, the humiliation of being called out hit twice as hard.

Among the women, even when someone screwed up, they covered for each other or protected one another.

It was fucking disgusting.

But in this gender-reversed world, things were different.

Where else would I get a chance to publicly tear into these crazy bitches like this?

The devil named Yu Sihyun smiled.

I’ll pay you back for everything you did.

You fucking bitches.

“Yes. Assistant Manager, let’s head down now.”

I slipped the e-cigarette I’d been smoking into my pocket.

The flavor tasted sweeter than usual today.

“Sihyun-ssi! Are the meeting materials ready?”

“Ah, yes. Yuri-ssi. Almost done.”

“You know the meeting starts at ten. Ugh, seriously. So frustrating.”

“Ah… yes. Yuri-ssi. The printed copies are on ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠the printer. Could you help me prepare a little?”

“Ah. I don’t know. You should do your own work. I’ll go call the Team Leader and the Assistant Managers. Have everything ready by the time I get back.”

Fuck. Seriously.

She wasn’t even my superior—just a same-year hire—yet she acted like she was the goddamn boss.

“Ugh. Seriously, not even a slug, what is this. Crawling around? And you probably snuck out for a smoke this morning too. You don’t do a single thing right—how did you even get hired? Seriously.”

The fucking bitch muttered it like she was talking to herself, but every word reached me clear as day.

“Hey, Yuri-ssi, your words are a bit harsh……”

“What? What? Don’t tell me you eavesdropped on my private monologue? What the hell. Why are you listening in on other people’s words? You’re not a pervert or something.”

Haa.

Fucking bitch.

She’d done it on purpose and then framed me as a pervert.

I wanted to kill her. For real.

“It’s nothing……”

“Yes. If you’ve got time to eavesdrop, use that time to prepare the meeting materials. You also need to place a coffee at each seat for the attendees. Ah, seriously. What are you doing. Hurry. Hurry.”

Nagging the fuck out of me.

While she did nothing herself.

Complaining would only delay the morning meeting prep. If the prep wasn’t done right, only I would get chewed out.

Snap out of it and just work fast.

I went to the printer and brought over the materials I’d copied for the morning meeting. I arranged them one by one in order.

One, two…… three………

Today each set of meeting materials was a whopping twenty-three sheets of A4 paper.

Fuck. On busy days there was always more to prepare.

I stapled them set by set. In my hurry I cut my finger on the paper.

“Augh…… fuck.”

A paper cut hurt more than you’d think. Red beads of blood welled up; I roughly wrapped the finger in a tissue.

Making it on time looked impossible. I sped up even more.

“Sihyun-ah, busy?”

Assistant Manager Seonghyeon opened the meeting room door and stepped in.

“Ah, Assistant Manager.”

Seonghyeon took one look at the meeting room turned into a mess of A4 paper and rolled up his sleeves.

“Ah. That fucking bitch Seo Yuri. Seriously. Situation like this and she doesn’t help—she’s just shooting the shit with those fucking bitches.”

“That’s just how that bitch is. Whatever.”

“Sihyun-ssi, I’ll help you. What can I do?”

“Thank you, Assistant Manager. Sorry, but could you just place a coffee at each seat? I’ll handle the materials.”

“Those fucking bitches are even making us put coffee at the seats now?”

“Yes? Isn’t that normal? Yuri-ssi told me to.”

“What? This fucking bitch is inventing work because she doesn’t want to prepare for the morning meeting. Seo Yuri, that dog fucking bitch. Seriously.”

“Ah, so it wasn’t something we had to do? But if we don’t, that fucking fox Seo Yuri will throw another fit about everything under the sun. What can we do. We have to do it for now.”

“Got it. Sihyun-ah. You really got screwed over meeting a bad same-year hire. Keep organizing the materials—I’ll go make the coffee.”

“Really, thank you so much, Assistant Manager. Without you I don’t know how I’d even work at this company.”

“What’s there to thank. Team members help each other. I had a hard time in my early days too. Hang in there.”

“Yes, Assistant Manager.”

Haa.

Thanks to Seonghyeon I could breathe a little easier. I hadn’t known him long, but he was a good person—like a real older brother.

It was 9:50. I prepped the meeting materials as fast as I could and barely made it in time to place them at the team members’ seats.

Haa……

Is it finally done?

Just then Seonghyeon came into the meeting room carrying the coffees. I quickly approached him, took the tray, and set a cup at each seat.

“Assistant Manager. Everything’s ready now, right?”

“Yeah, seems so?”

Since I hadn’t been at the company long, I hadn’t prepared for morning meetings many times.

Then Seo Yuri opened the meeting room door and walked in. She held out a small object toward me.

“Ah, here’s the USB.”

“Yes?”

“Ah. The USB.”

“And?”

“What do you mean ‘and.’ Hurry and prepare. Ah. Whatever. The team leaders are coming in. Team Leader~ You look prettier today.”

Fucking bitch.

What the hell is this situation now?

Team Leader Ayeong, who had just entered the meeting room, looked at me with an incredulous expression.

“Sihyun-ssi. Are you joking right now? When did Yuri-ssi give you the USB file? And you still haven’t set up the projector? Didn’t you say you were an admin soldier in the military? Putting a USB in the computer and turning on the projector is that hard? You can’t even do that much? Anyway. If I’d known it would be like this I would have hired a woman. I hired a male employee ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠thinking he’d at least be good at these menial tasks. But once hired, what he can do is……”

“Team Leader, it’s not that—Yuri-ssi just gave me the USB now……”

That dog bitch Seo Yuri cut in.

“Sihyun-ssi! The Team Leader is speaking right now and you’re cutting her off rudely and interrupting? Ah seriously, I can’t believe this. Right, Team Leader?”

She’d jumped in the second she sensed things turning against her.

“Sihyun-ssi. Stop making excuses and hurry up and prepare. Seriously, if you just did half of what Yuri-ssi does I wouldn’t say this. Ah, fuck, I misjudged the person when I interviewed Sihyun-ssi. He looked obedient so I hired him. But he talks back over every little thing.”

Haa.

These fucking bitches stuck together so tightly that no matter what I said it only sounded like an excuse.

Someday I would definitely pay them back for everything. For real.

For now I had no power, so I just endured.

“Understood. I’ll prepare quickly.”

I pressed the computer’s power button.

Whiiing!

The Windows screen came up. Since I’d done about six months as an admin soldier in the military, connecting the projector to the computer was easier than expected. Seonghyeon helped too.

I inserted the USB into the computer.

But—

Fuck. When things don’t go your way.

The PowerPoint file on the USB was corrupted; I couldn’t transfer it.

Seonghyeon, watching from the side, let out a sigh.

“Sihyun-ssi. This is big trouble. Looks like the file is corrupted?”

“Haa. This is driving me crazy. Seriously, Assistant Manager.”

Team Leader Ayeong looked sharply at the two of us.

“Two men taking so long just to connect one file to the projector?”

“It’s not that—the file on the USB is corrupted. We might need the original file?”

“What? What do you mean? Corrupted?”

“Yes. The USB is damaged so the file won’t open.”

“So? You’re saying you can’t open the file now? Two men can’t even solve that?”

Ah, that fucking bitch thought if two men got together they could solve everything.

Fuck. Why don’t you petition the Blue House asking why two men together can’t make a nuclear bomb, you fucking bitch.

Crazy bitch for real.

“Ah. I don’t know so just solve it quickly. Ah, seriously, trying to work with incompetent male employees—my insides are on fire for real. My stomach already hurts like hell. Why is it like this from the morning. Seriously.”

That dog bitch dumped all her period stress on me and Seonghyeon.

Haa. First let’s solve the problem.

“Yuri-ssi, do you have the original file by any chance?”

When preparing meeting materials, saving the original on your own PC in case the USB corrupts is basic among basics.

“What? Why are you looking for that from me now. You broke the USB yourself and now you’re trying to pin it on me. Ah seriously. Unbelievable.”

“No, it’s not that. You prepared this meeting material, right, Yuri-ssi? Then ‍‍‌‌⁠​​⁠‌​​‍​​‍​‌​⁠‍‌‍⁠⁠‌⁠‌‍‌‍‌‌‌‍⁠​‌​‌​‌‍‌‌‌⁠‍​​‌‍⁠‌‌⁠⁠you should have the original.”

Yuri the dog bitch’s eyes spun.

No matter how computer-illiterate that bitch was, she knew this basic situation.

Fucking bitch.

Looking at it, she’d been goofing off and forgotten she had to prepare the meeting materials. And since she was in a bind, she’d deliberately given me a corrupted USB—right before the meeting started, so I couldn’t check it.

That piece-of-shit bitch was spinning her head hard.

“Ah. I don’t know. You’re making a fuss at me over your own mistake. You completely wiped out the materials I worked hard on. Ah so annoying. Seriously. Team Leader~ Since Sihyun-ssi is incompetent and the projector seems hard, just proceed with the meeting using the report materials today.”

“Haa. Fine then. Ah seriously, Yuri-ssi must be pissed. Isn’t that the material you stayed up all night making? All of Yuri-ssi’s hard work flew away because of Sihyun-ssi’s mistake. Alright. Alright, stop it and everyone take your seats.”

“Yes.”

I sat in the meeting-room seat with a sigh.

“Sihyun-ssi. Don’t sigh like that when all the team members are here. Don’t you know company etiquette? It’s not etiquette.”

I was already about to go crazy from irritation, and Junior Manager Kim Mihui poured oil on the fire.

This crazy bitch’s specialty among her best skills.

They say the sister-in-law who stops the fight is more hateful than the mother-in-law who hits—I really wanted to staple that crazy bitch’s blabbering tongue shut.

My hands trembled.

Haa. Endure. Endure. For real.

Team Leader Ayeong took a sip of the prepared coffee and made a satisfied expression.

“The coffee’s good?”

That bitch Seo Yuri quickly wagged her tail and reacted.

“Team Leader~ I specially prepared it for the team leaders and team members. I’m glad you like it, Team Leader. I’ll prepare it for the next morning meeting too. Green tea, coffee—just say the word. Hehe.”

Fuck. Really a dog-like bitch.

Seonghyeon had prepared it.

Anyway that fucking bitch must have been a Japanese collaborator who sold out the country in a past life. She was fucking great at stealing other people’s credit and sucking up.

I raised my head and looked at Seonghyeon. He smiled awkwardly and signed with his hand not to say anything.

Yeah. Even if I said Seonghyeon prepared it now, Yuri would come at us hard with tackles again and only we would get face-slapped by the Team Leader.

“Alright, then we’ll start the morning meeting. Everyone please take your seats.”

But then Deputy General Manager Choi Dajeong, who had been looking over the materials, saw something and screamed “Kyaak!” in surprise.