Meanwhile, employees at the company told us he ate lunch in the company cafeteria, drove a beat-up truck to work, and had dinner with his kids every night. He was featured in flashy magazine articles and known as a people leader who espoused work-life balance while nonchalantly beating his numbers every year. You know that.” Roger was the highly touted CEO of the oil and gas company who everybody looked up to. I tried his assistant twice and never heard back, either. “Because Roger didn’t write back to my three emails asking him for the right number and he never gave us a number where we could call him. “Why do we have an assumption in here instead of an actual figure?” he asked. Casey’s sense of humor had carried me through all the challenges and Chinese take-out boxes leading up to today, but he had just asked me a last-minute question that made me snap. We were minutes away from our big presentation. More than three months of late-night stress and working on weekends had finally rolled up to right now. One Monday morning, I was sitting in his glass-windowed corner office with the rising sun beaming onto the desk between us. Casey was my boss and the head of the project I was assigned to for the summer, which was for one of the world’s largest oil and gas companies. For four months between school years in college I held the sexy job title of “summer intern” at a big consulting company in a downtown high-rise. I got my first office job in my early twenties.
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