Third in an occasional series with Lindsey Munro. Previously: Romper Room Munro Consultants ~ The offer letter from Madison Medical Technology arrived by email. The human resources manager wrote that the company was also sending a paper copy to her home address, and that it should arrive in a day or two. They looked forward
Sometime around 2005… “Why are you back so early? It’s not even six, it’s only Tuesday. Did you get fired?” Mitchell smiled, set his computer briefcase on the kitchen table, dropped his gym bag on the floor, then took baby Isabelle from Rene. “No, I didn’t get fired. I have to go back later tonight.
At ten-fifteen on a Tuesday morning, the woman who had started as the receptionist and one month later became the company’s office manager, walked out of the office door on to the sidewalk of University Avenue in downtown Palo Alto. She stood holding the door open, looked left then right. The office door, a narrow