The Cherry Trap
In past years, someone would have started clapping by now.
But this year, no one did.
Polly Malfoy, a newcomer who had joined three months ago, was the first to lift her head. She said, "Mr. Bassett, I heard that at Midea Tech's annual meeting, everyone got two big boxes of cherries."
The room fell abruptly silent.
I frowned. "What did you just say?"
"Cherries," she repeated, tracing a small circle on the tabletop. "Imported ones.
"One box costs seventy or eighty dollars. Two boxes are 160 dollars—and that doesn't even include the extra two months' salary they give."
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