#thebossandher

In the last two or so weeks, there’s been that persistent rumor that the New Employee and the Boss are having a thing, that they’re ‘flinging’. Of course, these are idle-talkers peeping from the 'bumooli' because when you ask them for evidence, they avert their eyes, shuffle their feet and attempt to change the subject as they unconvincingly say, “You wait and see.”

Evidence of a dalliance of this calibre means that you have to have pictures of them giving each other secret smiles, you have to catch a word or two of their coded language… or actually catch them in flagrante delicto…something like that. But this is the type of juicy gossip that makes the world go round for those who have no work to do.

Okay, the Boss is known to have a thing for anything in a skirt, anything that wears heels (or flats), slathers on her matte lipstick and fake lashes, or wears a wig or piece. Or even if she doesn't have those add-ons, its okay. As long as it is female. He’ll find a way to wangle himself into her good books.

In addition to the thing for the skirt, he is also renowned for a roving eye and a smooth tongue. He has a dictionary of the right words to use- they just roll and roll off-, and when the situation calls for it, he knows just where to touch and how to soften the hard edges of even the toughest mother-in-law and make her giggle like a little girl.

It is also a well known fact, that Boss has wife- a faithful wife, a side-dish, a mistress, and several concubines. And—— if I may hasten to add, he is a good-looking piece, tall, six-pack (he does gym twice a day), and has lots of money to throw around (that those sources of money are suspect, is story for another day).

Boss has flunkies who run around for him, doing his dirty work. “Get me lunch- I want boiled beef and fried cassava from Munyonyo!”, “Take my car to the garage in Jinja!”. They bend and bow at his every word, sometimes they just sense that he is about to bark an order and act before he even opens his mouth. Some of the 'bumooli' brigade say that these minions have been sent to carry a message to New Employee. Notes. From the Boss of course.

Now, Ms. New Employee- the newest kid on the block. She joined the office in June. Came very highly recommended and beat all other interviewees hands down. The flying colors sort of chic. She has it going for her, still young, single (we don't know very much about her social status) and very attractive.

All the men-folk want to escort her to lunch, some approach her desk and don't even know what to say, they just stumble over their words like kindergarten kids. And she’s a likable, amiable sort.
But I have seen her at her worst, when she gave someone a dressing down for something he had done wrong, and oh! you wouldn't wanna be near her when she’s in this state, because she goes low, real low.

So, back to these gossips who allege that the fling is happening----

Someone says they caught the Boss eyeing her rear after she swung past him in the corridor. Others allege he has been Googling her name; then there are those who swear that they were Whatsapping each other during the meeting, and another very w-i-l-d allegation that they were espied in a car together. That the car was parked. Somewhere.

Someone else said Boss had sent his very trusted emissaries to ferry New Employee to his house in the dead of the night. But where is the evidence? Sorry, but I’m a doubting Thomas on this one.
I need to see them locked in embrace, blowing kisses, and doing those things that lovers do, and then "seeing will really become believing".