The Worry Wart

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Wilbur dragged himself to work, and to his desk, where he took out the pink stuff and swigged down a couple of swallows right from the bottle. He opened his top desk drawer and checked his supply of antacid tablets—still a couple of dozen rolls in there—that should last him most of the week. He put a couple rolls in his pocket and flipped on his computer. Now he was ready for work.

The Federal Responsibility Act of 2001 (the “Worry Wart law”) had mandated that for every company in the US of A, every employee of each company had the right to know who was responsible for worrying about whatever problems they might encounter at the job site.

At General Hazardous Waste Disposal Company, that man was Wilbur.

Mondays were the worst. It seemed that half the employees would go home on Friday dedicated to thinking of something that was a problem so they could hit Wilbur with it on Monday. Of course, the federally mandated whistle-blowers prizes were quite lucrative.

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