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shouldn't need to be told to close their mouth when they eat.
They ate lunch quickly and quietly. The next forty minutes they spent rummaging through the ideas of their sales teams. Most of the ideas weren’t worth the paper they were written on. They found a few ideas worth exploring and of course came up with a superior list of their own.
After several interruptions from people coming in to ask if they could leave early and if they planned on being open tomorrow, they decided to call it quits for the time being. The PowerPoint presentation would have to wait.
They cleaned up lunch and decided to leave the workspace set up in case they had time to work on it again before they went home for the night. Laptops were the only thing to accompany them back to their desks.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Alone at the Office
BY THE TIME four o'clock rolled around, Serena called in and said that if anyone wanted to leave early they could. She told Regina she preferred everyone get home safe. That was one admirable thing; she made sure ever yone that worked there felt valued and respected. Of course they had to earn that respect each day by working to their potential. It was an agreeable arrangement.
Regina let the staff know that an email would be going out by six a.m. to let them know what the st atus of the storm and office hours would be for Friday.
Half of the staff flew out the door when Regina a nnounced the news. The rest diligently wrapped up what they were working on and trickled out the door before five. More often than not, Regina worked well past eight.
She didn't understand what all the commotion was about. In the three years she worked there, they only closed once because there was over two feet of snow and the governor called a state of emergency. They couldn't have opened if they’d wanted to. Only essential people were allowed on the roads, mostly medical and law e nforcement workers.
Regina sat back in her seat and enjoyed the silence. She found it easiest to bang out all her emails at night just after everyone left. No one was asking or telling her an ything. Above all else, she didn't have to listen to Jackie and Maria talking about the brothers they were newly dating.
That situation was way too bizarre. It was only a matter of time before someone started to say the wrong thing and the fighting would begin. Those two were the most catty in the office. For now, it was fun for them to be besties. Regina knew there was no pretty way for it to end. She warned them against the ramifications of it. It was almost like dating someone at work.
She also warned them that when it did take its ugly turn for the worse, she didn't want to hear or see it in the office. Serena would never allow someone to leak out negative poison into the attitudes of the staff. She’d been around long enough to see how fast it could spread like wildfire.
Serena didn’t have a policy on inner-office dating. How could she? Her husband was her partner. Her only po licy was to come to work with a smile. Leave the frowns, fights, and festering for home.
THE THUNDER CRACKED against the dark night sky. The loud booms had Regina jumpy and on edge. Reddick pretended not to notice, but he snickered to himself at her childish reaction. He always saw her as a hotheaded workaholic, but there was something innocent about the way she reacted to the storm. Whether they got along or not, he didn’t mind the way her cherry-red heels carried her across the sales floor.
It was well past the close of most people’s normal business hours, even with the storm. The only two lights that remained lit resided on Regina’s and Reddick's desks. They weren’t going to let a little storm warning get in the way of having their name at the top of the sales board for the month.
The wind and rain started rattling the siding on the exterior of the restored Victorian. Regina found all the noise distracting, but she tried not to let it
They ate lunch quickly and quietly. The next forty minutes they spent rummaging through the ideas of their sales teams. Most of the ideas weren’t worth the paper they were written on. They found a few ideas worth exploring and of course came up with a superior list of their own.
After several interruptions from people coming in to ask if they could leave early and if they planned on being open tomorrow, they decided to call it quits for the time being. The PowerPoint presentation would have to wait.
They cleaned up lunch and decided to leave the workspace set up in case they had time to work on it again before they went home for the night. Laptops were the only thing to accompany them back to their desks.
CHAPTER EIGHT
Alone at the Office
BY THE TIME four o'clock rolled around, Serena called in and said that if anyone wanted to leave early they could. She told Regina she preferred everyone get home safe. That was one admirable thing; she made sure ever yone that worked there felt valued and respected. Of course they had to earn that respect each day by working to their potential. It was an agreeable arrangement.
Regina let the staff know that an email would be going out by six a.m. to let them know what the st atus of the storm and office hours would be for Friday.
Half of the staff flew out the door when Regina a nnounced the news. The rest diligently wrapped up what they were working on and trickled out the door before five. More often than not, Regina worked well past eight.
She didn't understand what all the commotion was about. In the three years she worked there, they only closed once because there was over two feet of snow and the governor called a state of emergency. They couldn't have opened if they’d wanted to. Only essential people were allowed on the roads, mostly medical and law e nforcement workers.
Regina sat back in her seat and enjoyed the silence. She found it easiest to bang out all her emails at night just after everyone left. No one was asking or telling her an ything. Above all else, she didn't have to listen to Jackie and Maria talking about the brothers they were newly dating.
That situation was way too bizarre. It was only a matter of time before someone started to say the wrong thing and the fighting would begin. Those two were the most catty in the office. For now, it was fun for them to be besties. Regina knew there was no pretty way for it to end. She warned them against the ramifications of it. It was almost like dating someone at work.
She also warned them that when it did take its ugly turn for the worse, she didn't want to hear or see it in the office. Serena would never allow someone to leak out negative poison into the attitudes of the staff. She’d been around long enough to see how fast it could spread like wildfire.
Serena didn’t have a policy on inner-office dating. How could she? Her husband was her partner. Her only po licy was to come to work with a smile. Leave the frowns, fights, and festering for home.
THE THUNDER CRACKED against the dark night sky. The loud booms had Regina jumpy and on edge. Reddick pretended not to notice, but he snickered to himself at her childish reaction. He always saw her as a hotheaded workaholic, but there was something innocent about the way she reacted to the storm. Whether they got along or not, he didn’t mind the way her cherry-red heels carried her across the sales floor.
It was well past the close of most people’s normal business hours, even with the storm. The only two lights that remained lit resided on Regina’s and Reddick's desks. They weren’t going to let a little storm warning get in the way of having their name at the top of the sales board for the month.
The wind and rain started rattling the siding on the exterior of the restored Victorian. Regina found all the noise distracting, but she tried not to let it
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