They Fired Me On My 55th Birthday After 29 Years But Three Months Later The Company Was Fighting To Survive

surprised, the way people look when a conversation departs from the script they prepared.

“What?”

“Our first client.”

A silence that had weight to it.

Then, quietly: “Bennett Manufacturing.”

Neither of us spoke for a moment.

We both remembered Bennett Manufacturing. We both remembered the three of us celebrating in those two rooms above the laundromat when continue reading …