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Chapter OneI've been working in corporate since I was eighteen I'h o As a fresh graduate, it took me about thirty-plus interviews before I could nailMy real-life skills were that bad

Thankfully, a lot has changed since then These days, I'm what you'd probably call an old hand when it conificant ti and small

As an applicant, you're so Rooo to Conference Room 2 If you're lucky, these places live up to their names But if you're not, then you usually end up in a place that should've only fit one person and a desk but has since been forcibly repurposed for interviewing twenty-plus fresh graduatesall at the same time

I really thought I've seen everything there is to see in recruitht is always 20/20, and it's true When I think about it now, there were all those little red flags that I should've seen miles away-—

Not being asked forled to a secret room that had a secret key-operated lift that opened to a secret floor

By the ti desperately to keep et me back to reception, but without a key to operate the elevator, I was stuck

What the heck have I gotten myself into?

I forced myself to step out of the elevator, and my internal alarm bells went off when its doors immediately slid shut behind me

Shit

The carpeted hallas dile unallop out of my chest

Keagan had insisted I take a day off from work to apply for this She had even described it as 'the drea'

At that tiht to myself, What's there to lose?

Noever, I', You stupid, stupid fool!

I had a good life Not exciting - at all - but it was a good life nonetheless, and alive-but-bored was a whole lot better than soerous-killed me, always