Never A Dull Moment At ZCO

I'm sure I'm not the only employee at ZCO that went to work this morning hoping to make it through the day with little or no drama.  After a record-breaking Monday (it was the 7th biggest day for pump sales in the history of the company) we all were hoping for peace in the valley. We almost made it through the work day unscathed until about 3:00 this afternoon when everybody in the building received an email from HR, telling us that a ZCO employee had been the victim of an attempted robbery earlier during lunch.  Now that's heavy.

The crime took place at the local Wendy's in the hood, less than a mile from work.  Details are pretty sketchy, and the Production Scheduling department's CSI team didn't have a lot of clues to work with, but we carried on our investigation like the true professional sleuths that we are.  The attempted robbery was apparently the handywork of four neighborhood thugs.  The victim called the police but the thugs are still on the lam.  That's all we had to go on for our investigation to find out who the victim was.  We were still confidant that we would uncover the identity of the victim; we've solved bigger mysteries with even less information.  It didn't take long for people from other departments to start calling us to see if we knew who the victim was.  I guess our reputation preceded us. 

We wasted no time in eliminating the possibilities, and we were able to uncover a few more clues.  From what we hear, the victim was a male that works on the first floor of our office building.  That sure narrowed it down.  We have a list of 6 possible victims.  But in all of our investigating, we had one other big unanswered question: why were they keeping the identity of the victim a secret?  They weren't hurt, and other than probably being scared to death, they were OK.  Ordinarily, a story of this magnitude wouldn't be kept secret for very long - the person would want to get back to work as soon as possible so they could start telling their horrific story.  But not in this case. I think there's more to it, faithful readers.  Stay tuned. We haven't given up yet.