“Do you want compensation, your job, an apology, or distance?” she asked.

“I want the people at the factory to keep their jobs.

I want to stop being treated as disposable.

And I want to know whether the company is being drained.”

“Those are three different goals,” she said.

“We can pursue all three, but we need to remember which decision serves which goal.”

Silas sat through the meeting only when I invited him.

When Nora raised the conflict created by his ownership of an interested investment firm, he acknowledged it and recused himself from any committee evaluating my individual employment dispute.