No one of them tried to blink afraid that they may be missed by the newcomer.
After their company started declining years ago, they had not received a single client thus it was a shock to them when they heard someone walking in and they were all present thus they knew it couldn’t be one of them.
As the steps neared, they heard the click of heels making them hold their breaths. They later saw a figure in colorless heels and an orange suit. When they looked at the person who had walked in, they were shocked since she was so beautiful. They tried to recall whether she was a celebrity or someone influential they had seen but nothing came to their mind.
They all had questions on their mind about how she was and what she was doing in their company. They wanted to be happy they had a client after a long period of time but they were all afraid that it might not be true and wound them.
“What’s going on here? Why is no one working and looking at me?” the person asked coldly with a frown on her face.
It wasn’t that she wasn’t used to that kind of attention but she had never encountered a scenario where she was looked at by everyone in a company when she walked in.
“Miss Anderson,” Jason, their boss, greeted the guest as he walked hurriedly towards her.
She looked at Jason and nodded before looking at everyone and raised her eyebrow at him as if asking what was really going on.
At the same time, just as everyone was about to recover from the shock they had received, they were dumbfounded once more when they heard her name and how their boss was treating them.
“Uhm, I was just having a meeting with them. You know the company’s situation thus…” he said as he scratched his head since he was also afraid of her.
“Okay. I hope you are done,” he said before turning her gaze to the employees.
“Hope I am not late and it’s still morning,” she said with a reassuring smile on her face.
“My name is Amanda Anderson. Biological sister to Ariana Anderson. I am telling you this cause I can sense your curiosity since you had my name. I think you all heard of me,” he said, making them nod their heads without looking at her since they were embarrassed that she could see through them.
“We will be working together from now since I am your new boss. I bought this company because I needed a company of my own and not my family’s and also a company that has been oppressed by the Scotts so much,” she said.
“Excuse me, miss, how old are you to run a company?” the man asked, making some of his fellows glare at him but making Amanda chuckle while Jason was sweating profusely since he knew what kind of a person she was.
“I will be turning twenty five this year. Is there any problem?” she said coldly, making the man shake his head in disagreement immediately.
“Good. I thought that you thought I was too old to start a company. You know, my brother started managing the Andersons Corp at the age of twenty and his own business at the age of ten thus I was kind of worried,” Amanda said but everyone could tell that she wasn’t as afraid as she claimed.
Another person raised their hand and she was given permission to speak.
“Ma’am, you said that you chose this company because it was oppressed by the Scotts. Can I ask why?”“Jason, if you are willing to continue working here, you can stay, if not then I am sorry but I will have to ask you to leave cause we will be talking about the company’s future,” Amanda said as he looked at him waiting for him to make a choice.
“Well, although I want to stay. I am not interested in this field. I want to go and do something that makes me happy,” he said, making Amanda nod her head.
“Okay. But I really can’t let you go and get poached by any company because you have potential and I love working with those who have bright futures. James, go out and talk to him. Know what he wants then you will tell me later,” she said, making Jason grateful.
Nodding her head, Amanda said, “Why? It is quite simple. They do whatever they want just cause they think they have the final say in this city. I just came to challenge them and take their position as the top company in the city,” she said with a smile on her face but everyone felt chills on their spines.
“Ma’am, what are your plans with us? Since you want to challenge them, I guess you have a plan,” Winnie said, making others nod their heads as they had the same question on their mind.
“My plans? Maybe to generate a fifty percent increase in both profits and shares,” she said, shocking everyone.
To them it was being ambitious and daring but if they weren’t like her, would they still be in the company?
“How?” they asked.
“I have been informed by your previous boss that you have designs that you drew for a long time that have not been worked on and made some outfits. So first, if you are all willing, we will have to extend and work overtime this weekend. We go through the sketches you’ve drawn while determining which kind of clients we want to do with, correcting where necessary then next week on Monday, we can start with the pattern making and production. Within two weeks, all that should be done,” Amanda said in a serious tone, making them worry upon hearing that.
“Ma’am, we can’t do that in two weeks,” Winnie said after seeing no one had the courage to say what was on their minds.
“Why?” Amanda asked with a frown.
“Most people left the company, thus we are less than a hundred employees,” another said, making Amanda frown even more but after some time, her face changed.
“If that’s what is bothering you then I will show you what we will do in the next meeting.”