cream-colored blazer, typing something on her brand-new laptop. She was twenty-seven, recently graduated, and apparently convinced that a degree in business administration had prepared her to replace a payroll director who had spent a decade learning the financial heartbeat of an industrial company.
She looked up and smiled.
“I built a much cleaner system.”
“A spreadsheet?” I asked.
“A dynamic payroll model,” she corrected.
Harold laughed.
I didn’t.
It was Friday afternoon, 3:17 p.m.
By Monday morning, twelve thousand employees at Granite Industrial Group were supposed to receive
