A Story In
100 Words
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Middle Management
Alan Alanwich preferred to leave the details to his subordinates. That's what he paid them for after all. He was much too busy to worry over moon landings or oxygen to nitrogen ratios.
But someone had failed to inform him that when the rocket detached, more than half his employees would be left behind. He did not regret their deaths, but who the hell was going to oversee the transition?
Someday, his tombstone would beg the question of how a man who spectacularly failed as a the CEO of his own company managed to build the world's first interplanetary skyscraper.
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