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Joe debates the relative merits of making a fuss and decides ultimately that his best bet is to just make sure it’s a party he himself enjoys and, ideally, Merrick doesn’t.
Finally, when he realizes his lunch break is twenty-five minutes away and he’s wasted enough time thinking about this that he doesn’t want to actually start working on something real in what little remains of his morning, he picks up his work phone and dials the number Merrick dropped on his desk.
On the second ring, a deep, pleasant voice answers, “Hello, this is Nicky speaking?”
“Hi Nicky,” Joe says, twirling the phone cable around his finger. “I’m Joe. I’m supposed to help coordinate the holiday party with you?”
In which Joe is coordinating a holiday party over the phone with a guy named Nicky who keeps praising Joe just a little too much for Joe to be casual about about it. Thankfully, the nice HR guy called Nicolò Joe emails sometimes says it’s okay to date coworkers.