“The compliance team needs a new section supervisor,” she said.

“I put your name in for an interview.”

I looked at the salary, and the benefits, and the list of responsibilities, and I was genuinely certain she had confused me with someone else.

“Evelyn — I’m a records assistant with less than a year in the department.”

“You’re the records assistant who found thirty-seven indexing errors nobody else caught, reorganized the entire audit-corrections process, and trained two people with more seniority than you without making either of them feel small about it.” She tapped the paper.

“I don’t recommend people I have to apologize for later. Interview.”