Chapter1
"I can no longer tolerate this incompetence from you! I have kept quiet for two months now, I have given you countless chances and a lot of time to clear your head, but you keep slacking in your work"
Mr Willow, stood firm as he hollered
"I have been very patient with you but I have run out patience, I don't think you would ever be at your best!"
"Sir, please", Andrea blurted out with hot sweat streaming from her forehead down to her cheeks and it dropped like a tiny droplet of water on the floor. She wiped the sweat off with her bare hands, this was the first time, she saw Mr.Willow this way, she knew exactly what this was all about and he had given her numerous chances but she couldn't meet up to Mr.willow's demands. She doubted if she would be able to come out of this one! She had it coming as she did failed to complete her task for last month and that broke the camel back.
Mr. Willow despised anyone not completing their monthly target with passion, "not being able to complete your task means loss" he would say and he hates making looses. it would be unbelievable that she does not get fired today, but she had to keep her hopes up.
"Sir please, I'm deeply sorry" she pleaded
"No need to plead, it's too late for that
now" Mr.Willow replied angrily
"Sir is too late for what?" Andrea asked, her heart pounding so loudly that she could hear the sound in her ears. She saw this coming but she wasn't ready for it. She was too scared for the outcome of this query from her boss
"I am sorry Andrea, but I will have to let you go" Mr. Willow said
"You're Fired!"
He Continued.
"As hard as this is for me, you can no longer work here anymore. You're constantly absent-minded, you leave your jobs half done, you couldn't complete the task for last month, you come in to work late, you loose your focus too easily, and your incompetence is starting to tell on the company's growth"
Mr.Willow spoke almost breaking into a hot sweat
"I know I didn't complete my task for last month, but that's the first time sir. I have been one of your best staff and you know it, if you send me away you will also be at the losing end" andrea fired back at him
"Well I don't care about that now, you do not listen to me. I can't have you make me lose my customers, because you fail to do what they asked of you," Mr. willow said with his eyes widely opened like he was looking into Andreas soul
"But sir".....!
"Here, this is five hundred dollars, take it"
He stamped the envelope on his desk
"You hold on to that, till you find a decent job, since you have wanted one so badly"
"What for?, are you paying me off?" Andrea asked
"No, no, pay you off, why would I do that? I do not want to let you leave empty handed but if you do what I asked of you, I won't sack you and I will promote you to a manager and increase your salary twice of what a bank manager would earn. The ball is in your court"
Mr willow said smiling mischievously and glaring at her body while he licked his lips with his tongue
Andrea felt disgusted and really angry at this. Why would he think so low of her? He has been making his advances at her and even offered her a new furnished apartment and a car but she rejected it. He was too old for her and he had slept with almost all the ladies that worked for him. She is one of the few of ladies that he hadn't slept with and he planned to get her by all means possible!
"Sir, Thank you so much for this, but I will never stoop so low to you, I won't loose my dignity for you, —
"Oh come of it, you know my constraint with you is that you are not smart, you are not ready to take risk like your mates do".
"If been smart means I have to sleep with old men that are old enough to be my dad just to complete my monthly task or to get customers to bank with us, then I don't want any of it. I have worked for you for a year now and it has not been easy. I have added to the growth of this bank and also signed on numerous customers to bank with us and I never did any if that with my body, so what makes you think I would would do it now?
"You're so stubborn and I hate it!, go pick your documents and leave now!"
Mr.willow stood up and he yelled angrily
Andrea picked the envelope with money and she left without uttering a single word