Biomedical Self-Engineering : Book 2 by Jon Svenson

Author:Jon Svenson [Svenson, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: LitRPG
Amazon: B08HSPYMT3
Publisher: Aryeh LLC
Published: 2020-11-30T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

“I don’t think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You’ve got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.”

—Will Rogers

He woke up early on Wednesday, going out for a jog before 5am. He showered when he got back, still picking up whiffs of stale cigarette smoke.

Toweling off before getting dressed, he pulled open his laptop and drafted an email with his findings from yesterday. The summary of the coin shop in Longview didn’t take long, and his recommendation was straight to the point: don’t buy. He sent that email to Randy, Charles and Rebecca, wanting to ensure that everyone stayed informed.

He then wrote up a list of law firms in downtown Portland that weren’t doing well. He didn’t add any personal comments because he didn’t have any, but he asked Rebecca to come back to Charles and himself with her thoughts on both of them.

With that done, he opened the email from the leasing company. Just as he’d asked, they had shown the monthly leases for every level of the building, and sometimes for different offerings on each level when one unit was larger than another.

Overall, his first reaction was disappointment. The lease prices were at least 50 percent too high, especially for a building that needed improvements and didn’t have a single current lease. He didn’t know why they had been priced so high, and wrote back to that effect, asking if it was possible to negotiate a lower lease rate.

He read through the email twice to make sure he hadn’t missed mention of a sales price, but he hadn’t. Kelly had included some glossy brochures as an attachment, but they looked to be pictures from decades ago. They didn’t at all reflect the current condition of the building.

Realizing that, he sent a follow-up email, asking if she had visited the buildings recently, and explained the shape they were in. He’d only been in one building, but he doubted the others were very different.

That done, he closed his laptop and pulled up the message. As he’d expected, it was from Wal-Mart. “Carl, this is Sarah. First, let me apologize for yesterday’s meeting. If you’d stuck around a few minutes longer, we would have explained why we were there. We are investigating each of the Portland stores’ management teams, and during our research discovered your case. We thought it easier to pretend that I was from HR by inviting you in for an interview, but I realize in hindsight how foolish that was.” There was whispering in the background that Carl couldn’t make out before Sarah continued. “We have a job offer for you to work in either store. What I told you about Terry being promoted is correct, and he now works at the Happy Valley store. What I hadn’t realized was the pivotal role you played in getting him that promotion, which I learned from Bryn yesterday afternoon.”

She sighed. “Again, I can’t apologize enough. The original job offer was for the same position you had before, as a manager of the greeter team.

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