All Chapters of On The Verge Of Desperation: Chapter 1 - Chapter 10

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He then took the city motorway to a quiet place right on the Danube. First parked the car there and walked along a stairway that ran parallel to the river to the bank. Suddenly he was enjoying the twittering of birds, the green nature that was rebuilding itself and that surrounded him here. After the past dull winter months, a real blessing as he felt. First of all, he took a deep breath, and immediately looked at a Danube tug with interest. Who was just traveling upstream with a foaming bow wave. The dull roar of the diesel engines from inside the ship reached him. Suddenly Robert imagined this irrepressible force that managed to push a few thousand tons of steel forward, slowly but steadily, against the strong

Robert then parked the car in the garage, which was in the basement of the house. Went up the stairs that led to the spacious anteroom. He loved this house that they rented a good twelve years ago. Because here he could always enjoy the rather short breaks between his always necessary business trips. The house was always a calm pole for him in his otherwise hectic existence. Clara must have heard him, she just came out of the kitchen, "Hello darling!" She said and looked at her watch, "You? Already here at this time? Something completely new! ”Her look expressed amazement.

After that, Robert, on his part, did not believe in manipulating his sales. Playing the sales magician, like many other colleagues in the same position in subsidiaries. He really wanted a straightforward sales policy, based on the motto, what it weighs, that's what. only he made the calculation without the landlord, in his case without Van Sweeten. Logically, he knew about such maneuvers and found them entirely acceptable. After all, it was also about his own survival. When he asked Robert once, in a quiet private minute, to do the same to his nifty colleagues and also to play the numbers "Merlin", he immediately gave him a rather cold rebuff. What then immediately cooled their employment relationship even more d

The people recorded in this way at the time were proposed for dismissal because, in the opinion of the controllers, they did not fit into the new corporate culture at all. This “hit list” was of course top secret and only circulated among top management, which always let a head roll whenever it happened. Especially if the person concerned offered any target. In Robert's particular case, it was just his criticism of the pregnant nature at the meetings. Wherever he was picking the development people and those responsible for production like a raven. When van Sweeten finally got pissed off with him, he got the green light to kill him immediately.