I smiled.

“That’s exactly the right answer.”

I offered him the job subject to the normal checks appropriate for handling sensitive client records.

We agreed on training, confidentiality, and clear access limitations.

I had learned what could happen when one person controlled too much of a company’s financial machinery and nobody asked why.

His first day was awkward.

He asked permission to use the printer, then apologized for taking too long with a file.

I recognized that anxious habit of treating every small mistake like the beginning of disaster.