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On the warm summer evening when the Franks went into hiding, Mrs. Gies took charge. In subsequent months she and her trusty bicycle often carried so many bags of vegetables, bought with forged coupons, that she looked like a pack mule.8 No one suspected. Every weekday morning she would climb two flights' of stairs to the Annexe and get the grocery list.
Every afternoon she would deliver the shopping and stay a while to chat— after composing herself and putting on a cheerful expression."1 In the cramped, stuffy rooms, made dim with lace curtains tacked across the windows, everyone had to whisper." She kept back the worst news: truckloads of other Jews sent to the camps, shot and gassed, and old friends killed. On their side, the four Franks, three van Pels and a dentist called Dr. Pfeffer tried to conceal their tensions13 from her. Nonetheless, she could often feel "the sparks of unfinished conflicts left sizzling in the air".
Anne, restless, curious and outspoken", was often the cause of these tensions. But Miep (as they all called her), was something of a soulmate: a teasing office girl who craved sweets, ...
... relished independence, loved to dance, drank ten schnapps at an engagement party16—and, as a teenager, had also filled up notebooks with her private thoughts. Anne grilled17 her about her clothes and her hair and, on the one night Miep stayed in the Annexe, insisted that she slept in her bed. Miep found it small and hard and too heavy with blankets. But it was the fear in the place, "so thick I could feel it pressing down on me", that kept her awake.
She was always the first into work, brewing up18 good, strong coffee to keep everyone else going, and when it came to the Annexe—though her husband Jan and other colleagues helped too—she was naturally the heart of the operation. It was she who let Mrs. Frank pour out to her the despair she would not show otherwise. It was she who delivered library books on Saturdays, arranged presents on birthdays, organised a jam-making session when a huge crate of strawberries arrived, and made a new year cake with "Peace in 1944!" in hopeful icing on the top of it." She was always an optimist, sometimes too much so.
She also gathered up the scattered pages of Anne's diary on August 4th 1944, when the eight were arrested. Simply from the sound of their shoes on the stairs, she knew her friends were coming down "like beaten dogs". Much of the diary had been written in blank account books smuggled from her office. She stowed it in a drawer, unread. After the war, and Anne's death in Bergen-Belsen, she gave it to Otto Frank.
Japanese firms going into low-context cultures initially were confused by the adversarial approach of employees and the separation of work time and private or family time. U. S. employees, and Europeans too for that matter, were not willing to sacrifice their evenings and weekends for the betterment of the firm. In Japan, in contrast, employees are expected to spend time with co-workers after business hours. Typically, Japanese expatriates take this practice with them. At a Japanese subsidiary in the Midwest in the United States, for example, the Japanese employees tend to stay at the office long after the American employees have left for the evening.
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