Brad“Bud, the new interns are here,” Chris Maze, my VP of Ops, grunts. “You ready to greet them?”I gazed out my office window, ignoring him. Chris is always on my ass about something or other, but that’s his job. He’s the one who really runs Excel these days, whereas I’m a figurehead who presses the flesh and makes deals. Would I switch job descriptions with Chris? In a heartbeat. I fucking hate the charity dinners, fundraising, and political machinations required of a powerful developer in the Minneapolis area. Yet I built Excel using this skills, and this is why I’m at the top, and not him.“Yo,” Chris says, a tad impatient now. “Do you want to go meet them, or not? If not, I’ll tell them that you’re occupied, and we’ll send another senior figure to say hello. It’s not a big deal. They’re sure to be a bunch of teen morons who barely know up from down. It’s fine.”I grunt, swiveling my chair around to stare at my VP.“I’ll go,” I say.He nods.“Sure, boss. It’ll only take ten minut
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