I Had Been His Secretary for Only 8 Months When the 74-Year-Old CEO Locked the Office Door One Evening and Said, “From This Moment On, You Tell No One Anything”… The Next Morning, His Lawyer Called Me In
When I first started working for William Harris, everyone told me the same thing.
“You won’t last long.”
At first, I thought they were joking.
William was seventy-four years old, the founder and CEO of a large construction company. Almost everyone in town knew his name.
But very few people in the office actually liked him. He was harsh. He spoke very little.
He hated being questioned.
And three secretaries had quit within a single year.
I was twenty-nine and needed the job badly enough that those stories didn’t scare me.
For the first few months, he barely seemed to notice me.
Morning coffee.
Meeting schedules.
Emails.
Documents.
Sometimes he would only say,
