“It’s the reason I gave you: my grandma had a bad fall and needed to be taken to the hospital. “Tell me the real reason why you were gone so long yesterday.” After Evan read the email terminating his employment, he recalled their curt discussion from the previous Friday. The tech crash would continue, and Evan’s boss, a mercurial CEO who closely managed his twenty employees, grew increasingly bitter and difficult as his company faltered. About six weeks earlier, the NASDAQ had dropped more than twenty-five percent from its peak in a single week. , the Internet-based, chocolate home delivery company, was another dot-com whose days were numbered. That was the first email waiting for Evan on Monday morning, May 29, 2000, at the office where he had worked for the last two years. Your last pay check will arrive in the mail.” I’m out of the office this morning for meetings but you should pack up your belongings by 1 p.m.
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