From the Bottom to the TopGary and I were hired the same week. Same position. Same salary. Both of us starting fresh out of college, two young bucks with similar backgrounds, eager to get ahead. That’s what was so strange about his meteoric rise and my less than stellar one. I performed as well as he did, perhaps even better at times, yet, by the end of our first year with the company, he was the director of an entire department and I had been promoted to a mere Junior Manager. In other words, something wasn’t right. No sir, no how.
Though I discovered the how one fortuitous night while working late.
Place was dark, deserted, the janitors long gone. I’d come back in after dinner, desperate to get a proposal typed up and shipped off. The work went fast, easier to finish up without the usu
