Out of Office

Come on, Barbie Let’s take this offline

Barbie Ho is not a bot. She’s just a QC project lead who’s spent the last two years dealing with the most aggravating coworker she’s never met. Ethan Carter is not a slacker.

He’s just a QA project lead who’s spent the last two years dealing with the most nitpicky coworker he’s never met.

When both remote employees are blindsided by a three-day conference their boss expects them to attend, neither is ecstatic at the idea of finally meeting their workplace nemesis face-to-face.

Yet their first in-person encounter is anything but a disaster. The connection is immediate. The chemistry is undeniable.

It doesn’t hurt that they can commiserate over having a difficult coworker together, or that they don’t know who the person sitting next to them on the flight truly is… until one off-handed comment clues the other in at last, and suddenly, it’s business as usual.

Only this time, there’s more at stake than just deadlines.