All the Company Men by C.J. Steinberg

Author:C.J. Steinberg [Steinberg, C.J.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2021-05-11T22:00:00+00:00

THIRTEEN

C hristian had already spent over twenty minutes raving on and on about projections for the next quarter, the spending in the previous quarter, using the corporate terms no one needed or wanted to hear, but words which everyone used all the time. It was the way of life in the corporate world; people rarely said what they really wanted to say. It was about being specific and general at the same time. Evelyn never really minded the corporate way life. In all honesty, she thrived on the games, the maneuvers, and the power plays. But what she loved about it was the fact that she was better at it than anyone else she had encountered. In less than a decade, she had climbed to the CEO position of the Company without anyone boosting her or anyone making her do something she wasn’t comfortable with.

When she started, her goal was climb the ladder so she could put herself in a position from which she could execute her real goal—take everything away from the people who have taken everything from her. Their dreams, their hopes, their futures will all be mine, was all that she could think about as Christian droned on and on, his perfect hair sitting unnaturally sturdy on his head, his tailor-made suit fitting him perfectly. She saw in him a representation of all that she hated. Even sis strong, commanding voice that she always respected and admired bothered her; it was interrupting her thought-process. She was so close to completing her real mission that all the ladder-climbing now made no sense; it was a risky position to be in as she was one bad decision away from destroying everything she had worked so hard to build, but humans in their nature are irrational beings who work on emotion.

Even in the Covid-era, as the news like to call it now, projections for Dark Forrest Investment Fund were looking up. There was no way the Company could ever suffer. No matter what happens, the Company profits. Always. No wonder their reach extended so far as East Germany all those years back.

Evelyn snapped from her thoughts when she realized that the whole room was staring at her. She looked at their glazed eyes, at Christian and his piercing blue eyes. It was her turn to talk, but she wasn’t going to admit power to anyone else in that room; that was a one-way ticket to a CEO’s downfall.

“Evelyn, what do you think?” Christian repeated again a very polite, but passive-aggressive, corporate way.

“As always, Christian, great job,” she accepted his hand in the empty-talk dance. “Projections are strong, the basis concrete. It will be, despite all else, yet another great quarter for us.”

“But what do you think about—“ Evelyn raised her hand.

“You do what you deem necessary and fit for the situation. I trust you, Christian, and I believe that you are capable enough to take care of it.”

To that, he nodded and picked up all his papers before taking a seat.

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