Sign in Operio.work

Sam Roy

A calendar page stuck on March with later months waiting blank behind it.

You haven't posted since March

A catering enquiry note with Saturday circled on the calendar behind it and the quote still blank.

Forty people, Saturday, and no quote yet

A stack of documents with one line on one page lit up inside it.

The answer is in one of these two hundred files

A message in one language and its finished reply in another, one above the other.

They wrote in Spanish and you replied a week later

A faded till receipt beside a card payment on a statement, the two not yet matched.

Your accountant wants the receipts. Again.

"Interested" turned into nothing. Again.

"Interested" turned into nothing. Again.

"Where's my order?" — asked thirty times today

"Where's my order?" — asked thirty times today

A week's itinerary laid out day by day beside the Sunday-night message that asked for it.

The enquiry came in Sunday. The itinerary went out Thursday.

A van on a road, with two of three turnings marked closed and one open.

You drove an hour for someone who was never going to buy

One class register drawing bookings in from a phone, an app and a paper list at once.

Half the class booked online. The other half texted you.

A calendar date circled with a form sitting unfiled beside it.

The filing date was yesterday

You spent your Saturday finding a plumber

You spent your Saturday finding a plumber