CHAPTER 15: NO GOOD DEED GOES UNPUNISHED

I had just started putting some of my personal effects into a box, when I got the call from Lee’s admin, to meet him in his office immediately.

All the way there I kept vacillating between thinking I should beg to keep my job, and thinking it would do me more good just to tell him off, because he was going to fire me no matter what.

The door to Lee’s office was open when I got there. He was on the phone as usual, but waved me in as he hung up.

‘Please close the door behind you,’ he said.

Without waiting for an invitation, I threw myself down in a chair across the desk from him and said, ‘You really enjoy this, don’t you’?

At this point I figured there was nothing left to lose. Legally, the company was ...

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