The Falling Empire

It’s a beautiful last Thursday of the month and I’m a little anxious because I have a couple of minutes to get myself ready for a finance team meeting taking place in 10minutes’ time.

I get up from my desk, grab my diary and a pen for taking down notes, but first I will need a cup of coffee just next door. The office kitchen is beautiful, everything single component of the kitchen is a cut above the best.

Whoever was responsible really paid attention to details from the design, appliances and furniture. I walk towards the coffee machine and select a cappuccino with extra milk. Everything about this company is very impressive, the location for starters is at a very upmarket and the company owns the land and the property on which we are located as Head Office of the company.

I walk towards the glass sliding door to step outside to admire the beautiful view and to take in some fresh air coming from the huge dam, which is 5kms away. As I look around the surrounding business properties around our office, I see two international car dealerships across the road BMW and VW. This is where the who's who come to buy their luxury vehicles and there’s many of those around this neighborhood.

As I raise my eyeline just above the horizon of the high office buildings around our office, I can see the dam with boats and jet skiing of the elite Billionaires staying around the neighborhood. The dam is so huge, if you didn’t know you’ll mistaken it for a coastline because of the upmarket residential houses built around the edge of the dam. My Boss lives in the area and I was once invited to play at our corporate golf event inside their estate with some of our clients and his business associates.

Speaking of which, a black G63 Brabus Mercedes Benz top of the range pulls over the parking, branded with the company name and logo on the driver and passenger doors. It’s my Boss the CEO of the company and his wife the CFO.

I quickly grabbed my cup of cappuccino and made my way to the Boardroom.

“Good morning, everyone”, said the Boss Lady Yolanda, “Good morning mem”, answered the team.

The first thing that caught my attention is the beauty of the Boss lady, top to bottom she is on point and looking exquisite. Starting at the top, I didn’t help but to notice the beautiful and glossy black shoulder length straight Peruvian weave she was wearing, which contrast her beautiful light skin. She was wearing a baby blue Luis Vuitton corporate blouse with dark blue tight fit Luis Vuitton jeans, with light purple LV high hills shoes that match her LV handbag. She has a typical average body size of an African woman; I would say she is a size 32 if I was to estimate because my girlfriend is the same body size.

“Thank you all for coming, the reason for this meeting is to make you aware that as the CFO of this company, I am not happy with our Capex and Opex numbers for year-to-date. We are 60% over budget and we are only at the halfway point of our financial year, and I would like to know why?”.

Her phone went off with an incoming call.

“Please excuse me”, she got up and went outside the Boardroom.