escalate it through the proper channels.
I didn’t tell Denise what to do with the file.
I didn’t access company systems.
I didn’t offer to fix anything.
I had spent ten years building a system that should never have depended on one person having unlimited access and unlimited availability.
If management had ignored the need for a reliable transition, that was no longer something I could repair on my own.
At 7:46 a.m., another message arrived.
This time, it was from a former colleague in human resources.
The
