Today is the day I return to the company. I understand that, being in such bad shape, it has several purchase offers. If you think about it, they would leave quite a bit of money in my family's pockets, but it suits me if it grows again as before, otherwise I won't be able to earn money for my needs and those of those in my charge.
Maria has been in charge of preparing breakfast for the three of us, she is my angel and I tell her every time I can, she saved me from being left on the street and on top of that she accepted not only me but also my baby.
Daughter, I hope today is a very productive day for you and that you can achieve what you set out to do- she tells me while we drink our coffees.
Don't worry aunt, you'll see that everything turns out spectacularly, I'm going to first probe how everything is and then I'll make several plans and adjustments so that it returns to being what it was and maybe, who knows, it will grow even more- I tell her confidently. During my years of exile I was able to graduate not only in administration, but also in accounting. My jobs allowed me to study during the rest intervals and I always ended up taking free exams, because I didn't get to go to all the classes. As in primary and secondary school, in college I only got 9s and 10s, graduating with the best averages. I also took English and German courses, to defend myself if I needed to, because in Ushuaia there were many people from other countries, although everyone spoke English even if they were Russian or Japanese.
If anyone bothers you, Mommy, you just have to tell me, I'll defend you- Ignacio tells me, as he finishes drinking his chocolate milk.
You don't have to worry about that, come on we must leave for kindergarten or you'll be late on your first day- I say getting up from my seat, I give my aunt a kiss and grab my purse - today I'll buy several things to fill the fridge and the pantry, don't go out aunt, I want you to take care of yourself-
I take my baby's hand and we leave, the day is beautiful and too warm for what we were used to at the end of the world. The kindergarten was also close to home and the company several blocks away, so I could walk the whole way.
I hope you do well on your first day my love, I'll come pick you up at 4.30 when I get off work- I told him after giving him a kiss on his cheek.
Ignacio, despite being so small and only 5 years old, is extremely intelligent, perhaps having always grown up among adults had given him a different maturity than that of other children his age. This sometimes causes him problems to relate, he usually gets bored quickly with children's games, and he loves to spend time playing Scrabble or any other that involves forming words.
I taught him to read and write, so that he wouldn't get bored when he had to accompany me to my work and every Thursday night we had movie night with him and my aunt, I brought sweets and they were already waiting for me with popcorn.
Don't let anyone intimidate you, Mommy- he tells me giving me a big smile. Then he turns around and enters the kindergarten.
I continue my way to the company, I see several workers arriving in luxury cars and dressed perfectly. I don't understand how, if the company is bankrupt, they can still afford those luxuries.
I enter the building without anyone stopping me, the security people are too busy with their cell phones to notice my presence. I approach the elevator and go up, touching the 20th floor, where I knew the president's office was, my new workplace.
When I get out I find a secretary as young as me.
Good morning, do you have an appointment?- she says looking me up and down.
I don't need it, I suppose you were already told that the new president would come today, right?- I tell her glaring at her, everyone in this place is inefficient for their jobs, that's why it was falling apart.
Mrs. Florencia has not arrived yet- she says wanting to intimidate me.
Nor is she going to come either, let me introduce myself, my name is Giselle Blass the new president of Cosmeticos Moon- I tell her and continue my way to the office, leaving her with her mouth and eyes wide open.
On my new desk I have the accounting books and all the projects that the company had to finish before the end of the year to save itself from bankruptcy. It is incredible that this company is falling, my grandfather forged it from below and my father always knew how to maintain it, but having passed into the hands of a woman who only cares about having all the latest fashions, the company ended up closing several branches in the world. Today it only had the headquarters, the one in France, the one in Spain and a medium-sized one in Greece.
I want a meeting with the investors and the main heads of each department, in the meeting room in three hours- I tell my secretary through the office phone, I imagine that her face must be a poem. Now I remember from where she seemed so familiar, she is a friend of my sister, one of the many silly women who bought everything they saw in the windows, I wonder how she became the president's secretary? And if there I understand the unnecessary expenses that had led the company to ruin. That girl doesn't even have an administration course done, the folders she left me are a disaster, the new make-up hasn't even come out on the market because they haven't even done the marketing or the necessary advertising to make them known. This is a disaster and I have three hours to read everything and give at least a short-term solution that will lead us to something big before this is worth nothing at the end of the year.
Well, let's start reading and coming up with simple plans to be able to properly structure a good administration of what little we have left.
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