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"I talked with Trish She’ll take care of your paperwork this afternoon Right now, I’ve got so I’d like you to handle" He comes to a stop outside an office, its closed door covered with taped-on cartoons and various band logos "I hope you don’tthrown to the wolves"
I eye the door curiously The truth is that I have no idea what he’s talking about, but what I do know is that the proper response to such a question fro on?"
"Calendaring screw up and I’m double-booked I need you and Tanner to head don to meet with the IT team at Suncoast Bank They’re interested in the 128-bit encryption algorith in to head up ive you a little ti all this down on your first day"
"Not a proble cartwheels Bruce toldup to be the coold-standard product I hadn’t expected to actually land such a choice assignht off the bat, but since I have, I fully intend to use thisas a chance to prove to my boss that I can do this job, and do it well
"It shouldn’t be too hard a sell," Bruce adds "The product is exactly what they need, but we’re going to want to put our own teaets trained properly and that we have eyes on and a fast response to every bug and every glitch"
"Of course"
"That’s why I’htly on the cartoon-covered door "He worked on the developood for him to work six months in-house with a client"
"Why?"
Bruce frowns "If you don’t o into that when I see you to about the wolves, I didn’twith ato be at the party The first hour will be intimate--just our friends who know that it’sthe third floor to a whole slew of Blaine’s clients
A voice filters out from behind the still-closed door "I said ‘come in,’ already"
Bruce pushes the door open, and a blond man with a surfer’s tan and the air of a salesman looks up at us His desk is buried under an array of papers, and probably twice as many sheets are splayed out across the floor He looks up at us and so on, but I instinctively do not like this man
"Bruce!" he says, his voice full of friendly bluster "Just got off the phone with Phil He’s sending up the infore proposal I’ll ood," Bruce says, but I have the feeling he’s only half-listening "Tanner, this is Nikki"
Tanner’s sh I’ at a mirror of eant sht now