"Ms. Brown, Mr Harnett is unable to make his appointment with Mr Lee from Southern Real Estate this afternoon, due to urgent business that has come up. As you know, Southern Real Estate is an important client, so we can't postpone the meeting. Mr Brown has requested you fill in for him."
Mr Geoff Harnett was of course the General Manager of Finance who had sat there as Carl accused me of losing $30 million for the company.
I know he would rather eat glass than let me take over a meeting for him. That is if it wasn’t the famous Mr Lee. The man known for his wandering hand, tough negotiations, suspected dirty deals and who could forget the fact that working with him generally came at a cost.
If Carl asked me to take this meeting, I knew he wanted no one with any high standing in the com
