Week 14, Day 98 - “Bonuses"

“Bonus”
Written by Joe Janes
4/26/09
98 of 365

CAST:
Mandy, 30s
Tyrell, 30s
Ed, 30s

(Lights up on three office workers. Mandy is handing out envelopes to the other two and holds one herself.)

MANDY

Don’t get your hopes up, everyone. They cut back on bonuses this year.

TYRELL

That sucks. We worked extra hard to make less this year.

ED

We kept the company afloat. We should get more. (They open their envelopes.) So, what’d everybody get?

TYRELL

A fifty-dollar bill.

MANDY AND ED

Ooh. Ouch. That hurts, etc.

ED (looks in envelope)

Don’t feel bad. All I got was a two dollar bill and someone wrote “Happy Birthday, Billy” on it in ballpoint pen.

MANDY AND ED

That’s pretty bad,Ed. Yikes, etc.

MANDY (looks in envelope)

Well, you all made out better than me. All I got was a free month of Netflix. It sucks being the CEO.

(Blackout)