spacious skies - 29 . danielle

by american joe

part 29 of 40

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danielle dobbins, the chief diversity officer at the branch of the morningside bank , never let herself get upset by events, and took things one at a time. she prided herself on never checking her e-mails or texts before arriving at work in the morning. it helped that she knew that jennifer jefferson, her immediate superior at the regional office, never sent messages before, she, jennifer, arrived at her own desk around nine o’clock. if there were a real emergency danielle figured that jennifer would call her directly no matter what the time, even if she were asleep. but what could be an emergency or have any urgency in diversity? that was one of the reasons danielle appreciated being in diversity. nothing ever had to be done right away if not sooner as it might if a loan or other money transaction was involved, as it had been almost every day or night when danielle had, as she told her husband jim, “ actually had to work for a living”. so when danielle finished her latte and bagel with cream cheese and checked her cc’d copy of the email from the regional office to the personnel department to cut the staff at the branch by two persons, and requesting her input as to the best persons to be dispatched, she was in no hurry to reply. she knew exactly who she was going to recommend - bill smith and henry brown. but there was no point in rushing things. better to make it look like she was putting in time carefully considering the matter. and not giving regional the idea that she could get things done in three seconds because she had nothing to do. in the deeper part of her brain danielle knew that regional knew how much she had to do, because it was they who gave her things to do in the first place. she could find things in the media about the culture war and threats to diversity which presumably called for her attention, but what did they amount to ? regional, above regional central, and above central home office, could read the same things and more on their media input, and would let danielle know if they needed her to do anything. danielle decided it would be best to actually write reports about bill smith and henry brown. next