“Right.”Emma half shrugged off Asher’s arm.“I believe your words were:I don’t have time.You do it.”
Everyone laughed.“It was the truth.I was working on part of R&D’s app that crashed, and I needed your help.”Asher pouted.
“It only crashed because I told you not to add that new code until we’d finished testing.But did you listen to me?Of course you didn’t.”
“Children,” Miles said, clapping his hands.
I giggled.This group had the ability to tease each other, yet still work very well together.I was honored to be included.
“Anyway,” Josh said.“We’ll run the first dates on Monday, and we should be able to have some to you by the afternoon.”
“That’s fine.I’ll starting to index everything from a year ago to give us a good place to start to see if the problem has been going on for longer than a year or if it’s more recent.”Remembering what I’d seen, I suspected the issues had been happening longer than a year, but that was a good place to start.
“Do you think it has?”Miles asked.
“I’m not sure, but I suspect so,” I replied.
“I’m thinking it’s been happening for a couple of years at least,” Lucas chimed in.
“Why?”What had he seen that caused him to think the issues were older than a year?
“I looked at the company we were using before Rustic.We never had any chargebacks or returns that I could see.”
“They were a pretty small company,” Dean said.
“It was a two-person shop,” Lucas said.
“So why did you leave the other place?”Talking about Rustic might give me better insight into finding patterns and information to solve this puzzle.
“We didn’t.Rustic bought them out for a significant amount of money if I remember right.”Lucas rubbed his forehead.“It’s not easy to find the equipment we need without it costing us a fortune.Many of the companies are overseas and importing is costly.”
If Rustic bought this other company and then started doing shoddy work…there should be records.Maybe not records we could access, but the internet was forever.“There should be a public record of the sale,” I said.
“I’m sure there is.I’ll have to go find the other name,” Lucas commented.
“What name?”Cassie asked as she and Marcus came up to the table.The men all pushed back their chairs and stood.Cassie shook her head.“I’ve told you guys you don’t need to do that.”
“Our mamas would beat our asses if we didn’t.We were raised with manners,” Miles said, and all the other men nodded.
“So, what name?”Cassie asked again.
“The company used before Rustic,” I said.
“Oh, that’s easy.It was the Winter Brothers,” Cassie said.
Jaws dropped open.
“What?”Cassie waved her hand in the air.
“I think everyone is amazed you remember that, honey.”
“Why wouldn’t I?I had to deal with the complaints after the change.”
“There were complaints?”I stared at her.
“A few.I had to explain that Rustic bought them out.”
“Can I see those complaints?”I couldn’t wait to dig into them to see what I could find.
