She had her leather notebook tucked neatly under her left arm.

“Your third-quarter projections look solid on paper,” Carla said in her crisp business voice.

“I finished going through the final shipping variances this morning,” Michael said.

Carla stopped by the water cooler.

She tapped her red pen on the cover of her notebook.

“I got a very unusual call transferred from the main switchboard an hour ago,” Carla said.

Michael stopped and moved the heavy folders to his other arm.

“Did a regional driver miss a log sheet?” Michael asked.