I had heard this identical speech before, delivered with the same polished sincerity. When executives promise that nothing will change, it means everything is about to change dramatically. I began updating my résumé that very evening at 10:23 p.m., sitting at my dining room table with a glass of red wine, the Denver skyline glittering beyond my window.
But I also started doing something else, something my father had taught me during his thirty-two years as a construction foreman advocating for workers’ rights. I started documenting absolutely everything: every email exchange, every process document, every contract clause, every vendor agreement, every client relationship detail, every policy, every procedure, every conversation that seemed remotely significant. I backed everything up to three separate encrypted external hard drives that I kept at home, using high-grade encryption software.readmore below
