Chapter 30: Breakfast BriberyHoward waited in the giant conference room nervously. When he had last worked with Chidworth Home Services, the cleaning crew had five people, and Howard knew each of them well, often filling in if one of them were ill or needed a last-minute day off. At that time, Jason had worked as the sole realtor and property manager in an effort to bring extra income into the new company. Howard had handled the bookkeeping, office work, and filling in for the cleaning crew when he wasn’t at school or grading papers. Although by the time the kids had come along, the business had grown a great deal, they had still kept a crib and playpen in Jason’s office for those times Howard was needed.
Today, CHS employed over seventy-five cleaners, and Howard imagined that most of the
