Peter Giles was not a man who took rejection lightly.
When Jonathan had come in to interview with him, it hadn’t been Giles and Banks then. He was nothing more than a sole proprietor who employed a receptionist part-time, and she’d been walking out the door when Jonathan arrived. Peter was looking to expand his business—he hoped to move into grant work; he had connections in a lot of local governments and knew they had projects that could get funded by CDBG and HUD grants, if only there was someone who could write up the paperwork and coordinate the efforts. He’d helped write grants when he interned at a planning firm while at graduate school, and knew he could do the work. He just needed a dedicated staff to help him pull together the resources. He’d bring on the receptionist full-time a
