Chapter 113: Worth It
There was really no amount of money that could have ever paid for the service that Emily had given him when she had been his official PA. As the days wore on, Derek was realizing that more and more. In the weeks since she had left, he had fired a lot of people, a whole lot. But now as he looked at the current predicament that he was in. Derek had to admit defeat. Afterall, CEO or not, it would be over kill if he fired other people’s personal assistants too.
If one PA forgot a file he could understand. But how did a combined group of PAs lose notes to a meeting, and not even notice until he asked for them.
He watched the men and women as they ran around the conference room. Everybody looking for them, some of them on the phone. Asking people from other branches if they had happened to see such a file. The fact that even the soft copy was nowhere to be found was just icing on the cake for Derek, incompetence at its best. They were running helter skelter, looking for it. None of them was taking responsibility, and none of them was actually doing anything to solve the problem, it was so infuriating.
"Stop," Derek said softly, and all movement stopped immediately. Multiple pairs of wide eyes fixing on him. Pinching the bridge of his nose. Derek shut his laptop and got up from his seat
One mousy looking PA jumped up at the sudden move, he ignored her. She was the type that shook like a leaf at the sight of anything, even her own shadow. If he sighed he bet that she would faint. But she was not his concern.
"I do not care how you do it, or what you have to do to get it done, but by Monday morning I want those notes on my desk. If not ,well, you do not wish to find out what will happen," If he were being honest, nothing would happen to them really, just a bit of tongue lashing from him. But it seemed that his reputation for firing people on the spot, had earned him some unwarranted fear. He wanted to tell them to relax that he was not going to fire them. But then, he thought better of it. That might just make them not look as hard as they could for the file. so he let them stew in their fear. No doubt it would be a very bad couple of hours for them.
After making sure that they were all suitably terrified, Derek grabbed his laptop, and left the conference room. The level of noise going through the roof the moment he closed the door. Great, now they were pointing fingers and blaming each other. Looking at the door he wondered if he should go back in, and tell them to keep it down, but he decided to let it go.
At first when he had walked out of the room he had intended to go back to his office, but now that he was outside of all the noise. He realized that it would be a bad call. His plan for the rest of the day had been to go over the meeting notes, and make sure he had not missed anything, but with that ruined, it felt like his schedule was thrown off.
Rather than force himself to work when he was not in the mood, and be more likely to make mistakes, he headed for the elevators instead of his office.