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The New Boss: Chapter One
I slowly pulled into my parking space. Sometimes I hated this place. But it paid the bills, and for the most part, it wasn’t. Especially lately, my boss had been gone for almost a whole year now, which left me in charge.
At first, I was glad she was gone, but now I wanted her back. There was so much paperwork involved. I gathered up all the paperwork I had to do for the day and then locked the car. Who knew running a distribution center was so irritating? Usually, all I did was look over the floor and make sure everybody got paid on time.
I noticed a new car in the employee parking space. Shrugging it off, I continued towards the door.
‘Maybe one of the cleaning personnel got a new car.’ I thought to myself.
I pushed my key into the door and waited. Usually, the cleaning people would hear my keys and come running to be let out.
As usual, all four of them came running to the door. I let three of them out and walked the large warehouse floor with the lead. He explained everything they did as usual, and then I signed his form.
Just one of the many forms which I had to sign since she left. I went around turning on all the machines that made our product, then waited for the floor manager. He was always running late. I looked upstairs in the main office that looked down on the…
