Dollar Signs: Do You Only See My Money?
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me anything else? Nothing
say. She's great.
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een. Working through the emails that have accumulated over nig
my way out of my office, past Miss Winter's vacant desk and head
or the coffee machine. I had to work late last night to make up for my assistant's in
nings or
clude me in the hiring process. I mean, it's me that will have
e. Standing beside her is a woman in her mid-twenties. She's pretty. Beautiful even, with jet black hair
, your new boss," Sally say
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to meet you sir,"
od my head in agreement
er before opening my office door and g
ly before foll
I sit down myself. "I don't have a lot of time. I have an appointm
a pen, preparing to make notes. It causes me to pause. I don't remember the
gs," I tell her. "You'll need to be h
me sir?"
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flinch – but it doesn't come. She me
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sibilities as quickly as I can before le
to work for Cla
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ob," she says
you love our furniture or you were looking
le use could I have for wallpaper?" sh
asic etiquette to at least
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I know it, she's saying, "oh, no. I told them that I've wanted to work a
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she says in a conspiratorially quiet voice, "my dad f
the Clancy Doll's House for a tenner? I'm sure I