By the time the elevator arrived, 4 other people had gathered waiting for it: the man already mentioned, who was a 44 years old bald man. A guy bringing a pack of fruits, a 58 years old woman dressed in a very formal red coat and skirt, and a younger woman, dressed in similar fashion as the older one, but in gray instead of red.
There was an important law firm in the upper stages. So people dressed like that usually went up there.
John was the last one to enter the elevator, when he did, the younger woman was already pressing the button to close the elevator. It's just sometimes people didn't notice him.
The bald man and the woman dressed in red were frequent, so John had already seen them before, and they were already aware of him, so they did notice him down there, however, the younger woman and the fruits guy were people john had never seen before.

When the younger woman entered the elevator she noticed with strangeness that the bald man had marked the buttons for floors 7 and 12.
The woman in red had marked 14 and the fruit guy, the 4th.
"Thank you" said john to the man, right after entering the elevator and checking that the floor 12 was already marked.
"Oh my god" gasped spontaneously the younger woman as soon as she noticed there was a tiny creature on the floor, then looked at the other people's faces like checking if they have seen the same as she.
Both the bald man and the older woman smiled, they have shared the elevator with john several times and were used to this type of bizarre situations when people realized that there was a 3 inches tall man on the floor acting like a normal person.
By the look on their faces she realized that it was "normal" so she remained still and didn't want to stare at john just because it would have been uncomfortable.
She, however glanced at the tiny man a few times and politely covered her mouth with her hand in an expression of awe.

John, for its part, took a few glances at the woman's shoes, it was his way of identifying people, at least for one day, since looking at their faces most times wasn't very easy and natural. He had to stand a few meters away to be able to look at people faces without making it very obvious and painful for his neck. So he used to remind mostly the way people were dressed (specially the bottom part) and their voices. This is, of course, with the people he didn't already have a bond with.

Whatever, the first one to leave the elevator was the fruit guy, who went to the 4th floor, and then the other man, who went to the 7th.
Both ladies went to 14th, so he was next. He stood in front of the younger woman who, then, had the chance to examine the little man, since he was with his back turned to her, standing one feet away. When the door open she watched in awe the toy sized man getting off the elevator and entering the 12th floor.
"Was that, a real adult man?" he heard the younger woman ask immediately after the elevator door was shut. However, he took no offense. He was used to it, and people used to feel genuine curiosity about him.

Now he was on the hall before the entrance to the company, it had a glass door. There was no body else. He couldn't open the door by himself. He didn't have a smaprtphone, because there aren't phones according to his size. But he did have a device, developed by a co-worker of him who was an electronics enthusiast. The device was connected to the company network and sent an HTTP package via wi-fi to one of the servers which received it and sent a whatsapp message to the receptionist of the company, a girl called Nathalie. However, Nathalie was not always on her desk, if she was, opened the door for him, but if she wasn't he just had to wait until somebody else comes.

That day, he sent the message, but Nathalie was not there, so he waited a few minutes until someone came. The first person who opened the door for him was a young developer with whom he didn't have a close relationship, however, all people in the company knew about john and knew they had to let him in if they saw him waiting at the front door. There were some people who were confident enough to offer him "a ride" to his desk. But this guy was not the case, so he just held the door opened until John walked in and then walked straight to his post.

To John, it took him a few minutes to walk from the door to his desk. It was still early and there was not many people in the company yet. He said hi to a few persons in the way to his desk. When he got there, he started to climb the ladder that was on one of the sides, it was a small wood ladder designed for him that led from the floor to the top of his desk. On the desk he had a regular sized monitor and another desk fit for his size. On this tiny desk he had a special keyboard with a touchpad which was designed for him too, it wasn't very comfortable because it was still a little big for him, but it allowed him to write and move the cursor. Beyond the keyboard, the rest of his computer was a regular sized one, the tower case was under the desk and the turn-on switch had a cable extension connected to a small lever on his desk he used to turn the computer on.

While his computer was starting arrived Ana.
"Hey John, how's it going" said she while putting down her backpack and turning on her computer. Her desk was right beside John's.
Ana was a young software developer who worked in John's team.

The morning passed like any other morning, among work, small talk, meetings, etc. But at lunch time there was a celebration. That day was the company's tenth anniversary.

Emma was a new HR employee, she was a nice young girl with curly black hair and a slim body. It was her first day at the company, so Emily, the more experienced HR person in the company had been training her during the Morning.
The celebration consisted of the company inviting fancy food for the personnel, the CEO making a toast, you know, the usual. In the 11th floor, they had lunchroom, and all the workers were invited.

"Oh, and I forgot one important thing" said Diana "You'll have to go up for John"
"Who's John?" asked Emma. "oh, he's just one of our project managers"
Emma looked at her confused
"But" added Diana. "he's disabled, so he sometimes needs our help"
"What kind of disability? is he on a wheelchair?" replied Emma
"No, he's just small"
"Small?" asked Emma trying to figure out what she meant.
"Yeah, well, he's like really, reeeally small, he could come down on his own but it would take him several minutes, so we usually go and pick him up"
"Oookay", said Emma still not very sure what her new colleague was talking about

John was reading some documentation about the new continuous integration tool they were implementing when he was interrupted by a female voice "Hi, sorry, are you John?"
John turned around, Emma was standing in front of his desk looking down at him. He looked up at her face "oh, hi"
"Sorry", added Emma "let me introduce myself" and then she squatted so her face was leveled with John.
"My name is Emma, and I'm the new HR girl, today it's my first day" said the girl
"Oh, it's a pleasure to meet you Emma, I'm John" said the little man standing on his desk
"Yes... so, it's already lunchtime so, do you want me to..." Emma hesitated
"I mean, Diana told me you might need some help to..."
"Oh, yes" Said John "just place your hand on the desk so I can climb on it"
"Like this?" asked she while putting her left opened hand on the desk beside John. He climbed on it but the girl still didn't move her hand, although she started to slowly stand up. Then she started to slowly lift her hand, and she placed her other hand near so she contained him in case he fell. Slowly she lifted her hand to her face level without withdrawing her other hand because she still was afraid he could fall

John noticed she was nervous "It's okay" said him "You can grab me with your other hand" and the he lifted her arms so she could wrap her arms around his body without restraining his arms. "Just be careful not to press too tight"

Emma then carefully wrapped her right hand fingers around his body until she could hold him with only that hand.
"Oh my god, I'm holding you in my hand" said Emma, now feeling more comfortable because she knew he wouldn't fall.

She took him closer to her face. "It this ok? I mean... are you.. ok?"

"Yes, you are doing it very well" Said John "You can take me to the lunchroom like this"
"Ok" said she. Then she started to walk with the miniature sized man in her hand.

So, in the way to the 11th floor. While holding him in front of her she started to talk again "I'm sorry, I have never seen a person your size", "I'ts okay" replied John.

When they got to the lunchroom there was already many people there. and two long tables with several food dishes and drinks. Emma walked directly towards Diana.
"Oh, there you are, Hi John, how you doin' today?" said Diana stretching her palm so Emma could place him on it.

The new girl put the little man on her colleague's palm and carefully let go. As soon as Emma had withdrawn her hand. Diana grabbed John with her fist and gave him a kiss in the head. Then she put the little man on one of the tables. Emma was surprised of how confidently and fast she manipuleted him. And how he seemed to be completely accustomed to that.

They never put him on the ground when the room was crowded for obvious reasons, it was dangerous for him to be on the ground in a room full of people walking around. They could hurt him very badly if they didn't see him down there and accidentaly kicked him or stepped on his fragile body.

So he was used to being put on the table, among food, glasses, and cutlery.
"Hi John" said Brian, one of the leaders of the company "How you doing? did you try the potato chips? do you like potato chips" asked him while serving himself a glass of drink, then he walked away.

Emma and Diana had now moved to the other end of the table looking for some sandwiches. He was looking at the dishes around him to see what he could grab. Everything looked very tasty. He walked toward a tray with bread and took a little piece. Then he walked towards a pot of with some green paste, he plunged the bread on the paste and took a bite, he didn't know what it was but it was delicious, he could eat one entire year with all the food that was on the table.

After a while of moving around the table, trying dishes here and there, and small talking with some of his coworkers John was standing in front of a bottle of wine reading it's label when suddenly he saw the shadow of some fingers coming from behind. Before he could even react those fingers wrapped his whole body pinning his arms to his torso and holding him quite tight. Then he was suddenly lifted up from the table and finally was turned around towards the face of the person who grabbed him. It was a woman who looked 60 something years of age, She had red short hair and a fair amount of make up. Red lips, a red Sweater and gray pants and coat, she smiled at him "Hi! You must be John"
He had no idea who that woman was.