You Fired a Tech Genius novel · Chapter 17 of 32
Chapter 17: The All-Hands
I walked into the Hallett atrium at ten o'clock with a brass key in my pocket and no badge.
The security guard at the turnstile looked at me, looked at his screen, and opened the gate by hand.
"Mr. Hallett said to let you through," he said, and then, lower, "Good luck, man."
Six hundred people stood on the marble floor under the glass, holding paper cups of coffee.
It was the same room, with the same stage and the same screen.
The slide behind it said ALL-HANDS: ONE HALLETT.
Braxton stood at the lectern in a fresh quarter-zip, and when he saw me come through the crowd his whole face lit up.
"Everybody," he said into his headset. "A surprise. Our founding architect has come home."
A few people clapped, uncertainly.
Most of them just turned and watched me walk.
I recognized faces from seven years of elevators, a woman from payments, three of my old team, the man who fixed the coffee machine and always remembered my order.
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