Chapter 23Walking toward my workplace I saw my manager Michelle beckoning me from her office, so I went straight into see her when I entered the building. ‘Hey Chris, you want the good news or the bad news?’ I parked myself in a chair and asked her to hit me with the bad news first. ‘Well – the bad news is that you won’t be getting any redundancy money.’ The smile on her face told me to hang on before I retaliated ‘The good news is that you’re keeping your job; in fact we all are!’ She went on to explain that over the weekend the company had won some pretty substantial orders at a trade fair, so for the time being we were all safe. ‘However, I’m now going to have to fire your arse for walking into work 3 hours late with a f*****g smile as wide as the English Channel – just what in the

