Guinevere

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There is always a reason why someone wants to leave an organisation where they had been successful, to a point.  After all, the charity business was a rather small world, and it wasn’t hard to find out all the goings on.

Except when an organisation no longer wants to keep a certain employee and is prepared to write a glowing recommendation to hasten their departure.

Guinevere hadn’t done anything wrong; it was just she wanted to move in a new direction, and probably what sealed her fate, wanted a large increase in salary.

Charities tried very hard not to have expenses that exceeded the value of their bequests.  Sometimes they failed, but those were foundations set up by individuals looking to gain tax and other benefits.

And since Agatha was looking to expand her organisation by actively seeking outside donors, Guinevere had been successful in setting up a similar process in the last organisation she worked for.

And after speaking confidentially to Agatha’s father, she knew it was the position she was looking for.  All she had to do was convince Agatha and Adria.  That, of course, might be easier than she thought, discovering that Agatha was unwell, and would be stepping back for a while.

An old adage comes to mind as I’m plotting this, with friends like these, who needs enemies?

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