(Inspired By "Surprise" [pic] by Imagination Station/Shyguy)
by The Preve
(Thanks to Jen Lit Girl for the edit)
On May 22, two thousand and something or other, the Strassberg Company Biolab suffered a catastrophe. Eric Rodriguez, a semi-employed and extraordinarily stupid plumber, fucked up royally when he misconnected two very important pipes. The lab supervisor, an idiot by any means, fucked up royally when he botched the inspection of the plumber's work. The effect of these two royal fuck ups ensured that waste intended for the biolab disposal tanks went into the sewer instead.
The litigiously egregious lack of oversight (i.e. the supervisor's stupidity) went unnoticed for a week, until an alert young lab assistant named Herman Krump noticed the tanks had no water. He immediately alerted the supervisor (thereafter to be known as the Idiot Supervisor) who, upon re-inspection, found the misconnected pipes and promptly tried to cover his own ass. He dragged Rodriguez back to the lab, bribing him to fix the pipes and ordered Herman to keep his mouth shut. Herman was game, for a substantial raise but unfortunately for the Idiot Supervisor another assistant, a nameless backstabbing weasel with delusions of competency, alerted the Head of Division. The division head fired the backstabber, alerted the District Manager, and quietly ordered a Cleaner to kill the aforementioned weasel. The District Manager promptly alerted the Chairman, Mr Strassberg, the District Manager's grandfather; within hours the biolab was crawling with lawyers, executives, scientists, cleaners, and more lawyers.
"You fucked up royally," said the scientists.
"You're in deep shit," said the lawyers.
"You should have covered your ass," said the executives, to which the supervisor replied, "But I did."
"Can we kill him?" asked the cleaners.
"We have to find how much shit he put us in," said the more lawyers.
"Get the Auditor!" cried everyone.
The Auditor, who was not a Strassberg but really wanted to impress the family for monetary and promotional reasons, looked at the Inventory, took stock of what was flushed, and promptly told everybody, "We fucked up royally and we're in deep shit but not as deep as you think. It's fixable."