The Christmas Clerk

It is Christmas time And our clerk is all upset, Everyone is getting laid off And she is full of sadness and regret. There will be no overtime to fill And less employees to schedule, She will have a lonely company dinner On this supposed festive Yule. So, she will sit and sit lonely at her desk Thinking and wondering what to do, Then about the layoffs, she questions her boss And he said, 'you can get laid off too"! It is Christmas time And all the employees are now unemployed, Except for our one mill clerk Whose joy has been destroyed. She has no one to schedule No one to be seen or to be greeted, So, she fills out only her time Her job is the only one to be completed. She now thinks about the Christmas gifts And all the laid-off mill employees, How she wished that they all still were working Especially for their children, girls and boys. It is again Christmas time And our clerk is all alone, There is no schedule for her to type And no one to call for overtime on the phone. But, she remembers talking to her boss And what that he had said unto her, That it was her very own decision And she could be laid off too if she would prefer. The clerk sits blue and bereaved This saddened Christmas year, In her prayers she wishes the unemployed a Merry Christmas Then she cries without Christmas cheer. Randy L. McClave