13

I got to work today five minutes late and the way everyone was looking at me made me scared as hell.

What? do I have something on my face?

I went to Miriam's office and she looked so scared.

"Michelle, what did you do?", she asked.

"What do you mean?".

She got her laptop and showed me my anonymous email from last night.

"Oh yeah that stuff you talked about yesterday".

"What group did you send it to?", she asked.

"Our group"

"No, you didn't, you sent it to the main group, the one with the governing boards including Mr Greenwood and his father".

My heart sunk.

My body stopped functioning.

My head started spinning.

"B...but .. they won't know it's me right? right?".

"Girl, you're the recently employed person here, we've not employed anyone in the last 3 months, they know it's you " .

"Fuck ", I said and held my head.

"I am so fucked, holy shit ".

"I was able to delete it for you before a lot of people saw it from my end because I have access to all of that. But A good number of the employees saw it... and Mr Greenwood, he was the first person to see the email ", she said.

"Oh I am so fucked, I am so fucked. Oh shit ", I said pacing around her office.

"Calm down ".

"I've lost my job", I whispered.

My sister, oh fuck she was hoping on me, this job could have helped me save her life, what have I done??

"We can think of something, hopefully he doesn't know or think it's you".

My stomach was turning upside down.

i can't face him.

"I need to go Mariam, I'm calling in sick", I said dashing out of her office and heading straight to the exit.

"Michelle, wait!".

I didn't turn back,I went home straight.

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I didn't come to work for three days because I was gathering courage to face Mr Greenwood and beg him to please not fire me.

When I finally came to work, the stares increased even worse. It's like they had a board meeting or something about me.

I didn't even go to Miriam's office, I went straight to Mr Greenwood's.

He didn't lift his eyes up.

"Where have you been for the past three days?", he asked calmly.

"I... I uhm-, I was sick, I called in sick", I said.

"Who did you pass that information to?".

"Miriam, the secretary".

"Is she your boss?".

"No sir".

He looked up at me.

"Next time I'd like to get the information from you first hand. ", he stated.

"Yes sir".

He stood up immediately and left the office without even giving me an opportunity to speak.

Wait, he didn't fire me??

Maybe he didn't see the email? or he's just pretending like usual?

I decided to go to Miriam's office.

"Hi", I whispered.

"Girl where have you been for the past three days?".

"Thinking of how to apologize to Mr Greenwood", I said.

"Girl, you have no idea what's happened since you left", Vera said.

Oh no please I'm not ready for any of this.

"What? everyone's been talking about me?", I asked.

"Yes, but in a good way. There's a suggestion box here", she said pointing to a small black box at the entrance of Miriam's office.

My mouth hung.

"what?".

"Mr Greenwood brought in a suggestion box yesterday. We had a meeting yesterday. We were planning on coming over to your place today if you didn't show up. We had an employees meeting yesterday and we talked about ways to improve on the company, I'm not even joking. And Mr Greenwood created a suggestion box to talk about the problems we face in the company. Which was low-key your idea ", vera said surprised

I blinked twice, "So what you're saying is that I'm not loosing my job?", I asked because that was the only thing I cared about right now.

"From the looks of things? yeah, like you just made Mr Greenwood make a suggestion box, I mean you said a lot of vile things in that email, but he actually took it to heart to improve, Michelle you're a hero".

None of if this makes sense.

"Isn't he supposed to be mad or maybe even fire me?", I asked confused.

"I don't know, I don't know, you just have to find out yourself ".

"Miss Michelle?", someone called behind me

"Yes?".

"Mr Greenwood asked to see you in his office ", the young man said holding the suggestion box.

I swallowed hard.

Why do I low-key feel like I'm in so much trouble.

I turned to them and mouthed.

"Help".

They looked scared for me .

I nodded and followed the young man to his office.

My Greenwood was there seated.

", Have a seat", he said.

I swallowed hard and did.

The man dropped the box and opened it and then left.

"Sir I uhm, I just want to say that -".

"I got your email the other day ", he said pouring all the papers on his table.

"I'm so sorry about that sir, I promise I ... I it wasn't -".

"And you asked that I improve on the way I treat my employees, and that I should create a suggestion box. So I have done that, now we're going to read and evaluate the situation of the company, together ".

"Sir, I'm really sorry I said any of that, it was just -".

He looked confused.

"Why are you apologizing?".

"I said a lot of things out of line and -"

"And I'm saying that we should work on that, is there a problem Miss Michelle?".

"Is this torture?", I swear I didn't know when that slipped from my mouth.

He gave me a small side smile, almost like a chuckle.

"No, I'm just trying to be a better employer ", he said.

"Wh...why?", I suddenly asked.

"Well you're a month and 9 days old here, it's only logical to complain if you seem to have issues, an anonymous email to the board of directors was just crazy ".

"Sir I swear it was an accident ".

"Alright then", he pushed the papers to me.

"Read them up, let's get to work ", he said.

I think I'm cooked.