Katherine’s povThe hum of the office was a good sound. It was the sound of things working. Of people being bright and clear, keyboards clacking and a project in its groove. I stood in the doorway to the meeting room as I leaned by the wall to listen in on their conversations. My workers were talking about things that I had no care for but they were my workers and I was trying to build a relationship with them so I had to listen.“—so I told Fred we’d be shipping this week,” said Marcy, one of the old workers before I bought the place, with an assertive finger at her monitor, “and that I think that betas-per-developer charts are going to end up better than years past.”A laugh went around the room. “Alright, alright, enough gloating,” I said, stepping in. They all looked up, a little startled, they didn’t know I had been listening. The last CEO liked silence and fear much better than donuts and actual human conversation. “Seriously, though. I know the last few weeks have been chaos.
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