Hating Tate - A friends to lovers romance. by Raquel Belle

Author:Raquel Belle [Belle, Raquel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Naughty Bird Publishing
Published: 2019-06-07T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eleven

If I can thank Tate McCullough for anything, it’s for introducing us to the Big Brothers Big Sisters program. As it turns out, they have a summer camp that is free to low-income families. This will save me a lot of money, money I wasn’t sure I would be able to come up with if the kids had done the community center camp.

They’re a little grumbly, as I get them ready on their first day.

“None of my friends will be there,” Amy whines as I stuff her backpack with the day’s supplies.

“Yeah,” Eric says, “and we won’t know anyone.”

“You’ll have a chance to make new friends,” I say. “And this one has a pool so you’ll get to swim every day. I think you’ll really like it.”

“Why can’t we just go to Mr. Tate’s summer camp?” Eric asks.

“It’s too expensive,” I say.

They continue complaining all the way to camp, but both seem excited when I drop them off. The camp is held at a real campsite, with horses and trails and everything. It’s a bit further away than is convenient, but I can live with it. Amy actually recognizes a school friend and runs off without saying goodbye. Eric, however, clings to me until someone with a stomp-rocket catches his attention.

When I get to work, I review two test batches that I migrated to make sure the data migration worked the way I planned. I’m pleased to see that things worked, so I wander in to Roger’s office to let him see the process map and tell him about some of the quirks I had to work out from one system to the next.

“So, as you can see,” I explain as I point to the map, “that the few little bugs seem to be worked out because of the tweak I made here. There are some semantic differences between the systems, and once I caught those, I was able to track back to the problem points.”

“Semantic issues?” he asks, peering beady-eyed at the process map and probably thinking it looks like a totally different language. In fact, I’m not confident he knows what the word semantic even means.

“Yes,” I confirm. “For instance, we’ve always entered proposals as proposals, but DataBrand has a whole potential-client area that they call opportunities. It’s a secure area, which is nice because it mitigates some of our risk in taking baseline information and plugging it into illustrations.”

Roger grunts and nods, as I run through all of the tiny changes I’ve found between the two systems, as well as the ways in which our work should be better served by the new system. I add a “But you knew all this, or you wouldn’t have purchased the system,” just to stoke his ego a little.

“They seemed competent,” he says dismissively as he taps his fingers on his desk. He’s bored by all of this talk about project management and data migration.

“Well, they have been somewhat helpful, though this migration process certainly was worth at least what they would have charged.

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