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“Thanks. I’m a little proud of myself, too.”
CHAPTER 3
“I’ve issued all the new-hire laptops,” Levi said. “And we’re down to three in the inventory. Should we order more?”
“How many new hires do we have scheduled so far for the rest of the month?” Finley asked.
“According to the list from HR, we’ve got ten more this month. And we don’t have any upcoming departures yet that I know of, so we can’t use any old laptops.”
Finley stared at him for a minute, waiting for him to get where she already was when he said that they only had three left in stock but had ten new hires starting soon.
“So, you’ll order more?” he asked.
“We do have three people who have put in their notice and have their last days next week. I just got that news. We also got George’s and Martin’s computers back yesterday, so that’s five. I’ll need you and Rusty to get those ready. I’ll order another five to get us ahead, in case we have more than ten coming in, and because we get a discount at five, but I want to wait to do a bigger order until the end of the quarter, once I see how our numbers shape up. We always get an influx of new hires at the beginning of the year and tend to lose people at corporate toward the end.”
“Right. Cool. So, you’ll order them?” he asked.
Finley nodded, and Levi walked off to get back to work.
“He’s…” Molly began.
“Yeah, the common sense and process stuff isn’t Levi’s thing, but he’s a brilliant technician. I’ve never seen someone work as fast as he does, and it’s always done right. He builds gaming computers on the side and sells them. I think he makes enough money supporting himself just by doing that, but he likes the work here.”
“We actually have twelve new hires,” Molly shared. “We had to add a couple more yesterday. Now that we’re expanding into new states, we need more HR reps and a few district managers. Plus, I just heard that we promoted someone from the store to take Andrew’s old job. They didn’t have a computer when they were making coffee, so they’ll need one.”
“Well, sitting next to you continues to be a good choice,” Finley noted and glanced at the spreadsheet with the names of the upcoming hires on it. “I only have ten here.”
“They’ll update that by the end of the day. Stacey does it before she goes home every day, whenever there’s something to add.”
Finley smiled over at her and said, “Thanks. That saves me from having to do another order.”
Molly shrugged a shoulder like it was nothing and went back to work.
Finley went to the needed website and used the password her old manager had left behind for her. She had only done this a couple of times before, since this had been Martin’s job, but it was simple enough.
“Hey, are either of those newbies not on this list yet in marketing or design?” she asked Molly.
“No, just HR and management. Why?”
“They get different computers,” she said as she entered the number of laptops she needed to buy. “They get different monitors, too.”
“They do? I don’t think I’ve ever noticed.”
“Yeah, they get the good stuff,” Finley explained. “They get the ones that are color-calibrated. Some want the curved monitors, but I have two of those in stock already.”
“And I get the crappy monitor that blinks at me?”
Finley turned and asked, “It doeswhatnow?”
Molly looked over at her and said, “You know, blinks.”
She then blinked her eyes several times in a row, causing Finley to laugh because it was pretty cute.
“It goes out in short bursts?”
“Is that what the techy people call it?”
Finley stood up and said, “It’s probably the cable. I’ll try different ports, and if that doesn’t fix it, I’ll grab you a new cable. Why didn’t you tell me?”
