My Boss Said "Hard year, folks" - Then His 82-Year-Old Father Asked Where the Money Went

Bridget has kept the books at a family lumber yard in Missoula, Montana, for 15 years. She knows exactly how good this year was, and it was nothing like a hard one. The founder's son runs the yard now. For 2 Christmases the crew's envelopes shrank and then disappeared, while yellow sticky notes told her how to code invoices from a town 2 and a half hours north. The founder, 82 and retired, still gets her year-end report in the mail. His son is sure he never opens it. When the boss calls a great year a hard one, would you answer his father's question in front of everyone, or wait until after the holidays? 🔔 Subscribe for the next story. #christmasstory #workplacedrama #familybusiness This story is fiction, created for entertainment. Names, characters and events are invented, and any resemblance to real people is coincidental.