And — this is the one that gets the room quiet — a way for the finance person to escalate that does not run through the chief executive.

Corinne Lasseter asked exactly the right question, in writing, twice.

The second time she was taken into an office and told not to put it in writing and not to tell the other owner, and she was not a coward and she was not complicit; she was a competent person with no route.

Build the route.

It costs nothing.

It is a telephone number on a wall.

Part Forty: Officer