“CEO Roy Noyes Is Typing…” by Chantal Aida Gordon (Fiction ’16)
Fiction alum Chantal Aida Gordon’s short story, “CEO Roy Noyes Is Typing…” was featured in The Vassar Review.
Read an excerpt below.
CEO Roy Noyes Is Typing…
All employees—with the exception of the engineers—are
now required to return to the office five days a week,
Monday to Friday. With no exceptions (except if you’re
an engineer).
You’re not an engineer. You’re the lead UX designer
at Cemend, an app that erases the clutter, bric-a-brac,
tchotchkes, pet hair and crumbs from photos of rooms
inside your home. With Cemend you can replace your
furniture and decor with better, virtual versions of your
furniture and decor. If you’re interested in midcentury
modern or a look called travertine moon, which will make
your room look slippery and beiged-out like a palmful of
vitamin supplements, that’s great, you’re encouraged to
upgrade. The company got $17 million in funding.
Don’t tell anyone this is coming from me. No one else is
getting this benefit, Cemend’s CEO Roy Noyes allegedly said
two months ago, during an Eng standup when he gave
the engineers permission to live and work from wherever.
Roy has the tall gloom and fading curls of a 19th-century
piano composer and you can imagine him using his long
arms to wheel himself from one corner of his dining table
to the other as he talked.
Read the rest of the piece on page 6: CEO Roy Noyes Is Typing…
