The Power of Being a Number Two!

By Paul Joiner  |  February 26, 2018

First a Story
 
As Ryan Drake pulled into the parking lot of the office complex, he felt something was very wrong. Today was the dreaded “first day back” from a well-deserved two-week vacation. What he saw took him by surprise.  About 25 of his fellow employees congregated by the flagpole on the front lawn of the Powerland office building. At first he thought it was a fire drill or perhaps a bomb scare. But then he noticed other employees standing on the inside of the building looking back out through the windows. A hostage situation he wondered?
 
Ryan parked his car, grabbed his briefcase, and quickly headed for the group that encircled the flagpole. He spotted Fred, who works two cubicles down from him on the second floor.
 
“Fred, what on earth is going on?” Ryan asked.
 
“Oh, hi, Ryan. Welcome home, missed ya. Anyway . . . just so you know, you’re one of us, not one of them,” Fred said, pointing to the groups of people peering out the building through the windows on the third floor.
 
“By them you mean the executive staff?” Ryan inquired.
 
“Yeah. We’re holding a walkout. The sixth one in two weeks. It’s a protest of sorts.”
 
“That explains the black armbands and the pile of burning message pads,” Ryan said....

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