The executive floor of the building was designed to intimidate.
Glass walls.
Marble floors.
A view so high above the city that people below looked like moving dots.
This was where decisions were made that changed lives—usually without the decision-makers ever seeing the faces affected by them.
That afternoon, a long conference table sat crowded with men in tailored suits.
Coffee cups went untouched.
Laptops glowed.
Numbers flickered across a massive screen.
And near the door stood a woman holding a mop.
