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Why can’t people just be nice to each other?
I don’t understand it, because nice is good, right?
Nice means helping old people across the road and spending hours
searching for a lost puppy. It’s holding the door open for somebody and
getting rewarded with a smile from a stressed mother juggling kids and
grocery bags.
Yet people say it with a wrinkle on their nose, holding the vowel sound
for a bit too long.
We should bring nice back. We need it more than ever.
I’m standing outside the brownstone building that houses my nice job,
working for the funny and nice boss who’s been the chief editor at Smith
and Carson publishing since the 1970s. I’ve worked here for thirteen years
myself. It was my first job after finishing college and I took it with a plan to
save up enough money to move to New York and rise up the publishing
ladder.
And yet here I am, at the age of thirty-six, still working in the warm,
leafy city of Charleston. Not even that Charleston. This one is in West
Virginia. And I grew up here.
It’s only when I walk through the heavy wooden front door, shuffling
sideways so I don’t dent the box of donuts I’m carrying, that I realize
something is slightly off. A grin pulls at my lips when I start to greet
Sammy, the security guard come receptionist who’s worked here since…
well, forever.
Except Sammy isn’t sitting behind the long glass reception desk that
he’s always buffing to a shine. In his place is a thin, bespectacled young
man who keeps tapping at the keyboard in front of him and huffing.
“Hi,” I say brightly because this little chink in my nice day is not going
to spoil my post-vacation bliss.
He looks up and his eyes flicker over me and the donut box before he
looks back down at his computer. “We open at nine,” he says, his voice
strangled. He’s still jabbing at a key like he’s trying to make a point.
“It’s okay, I work here,” I tell him. “Is Sammy all right? I was expecting
to see him today.”
He looks up, brows pulled tight. “Sammy?”
“The security guard,” I say. “Security Sammy.” I smile because this
guy’s bad mood isn’t going to defeat me. “I don’t think he’s ever taken a
day off before.”
“I’ve no idea.” The man blinks. “It’s my first day. I was sent over by the
agency. I don’t suppose you know how to book a meeting room, do you?”
I patiently lean across the counter to show him how to use our ancient
booking system. It’s one of the many things I’ve nagged Richard – my boss
– about. But he has an aversion to anything digital and an even bigger
aversion to listening to me describe how much easier all our lives would be
if we upgraded our systems. If he had his way, we’d still be using a calendar
in the center of the office to bag the best rooms.
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