My 78 Year Old Boss Took Me to a Park and Said As of Today You No Longer Work for Me I Froze Thinking He Was Firing Me After Years of Loyalty Then He Offered to Keep Me Only on One Condition What He Said Made Me Walk Away in Tears
I had lost the job. In my mind, everything I had worked for was collapsing, and there was nothing I could do to stop it.
By Friday afternoon, fear had hardened into certainty. I went downstairs expecting the worst. When Richard and I finally sat together on the quiet park bench, I prepared myself for the words I had been dreading all week.