Beneath the plate lay a single folded sheet of paper. It was a printed copy of an email sent to the regional director at exactly 7:52 that morning. The document contained six years of carefully recorded incidents, each described with dates, facts, and no unnecessary emotional language.

It mentioned the interns whose shoes Patricia had mocked, the receptionist whose accent she ridiculed, and the delivery driver she had left standing outside in the rain. It also described Mrs. Whitaker’s birthday cake and the cruel remarks Patricia had made about it. At the bottom were the signatures of fourteen colleagues who had witnessed these events for years and finally decided they could no longer remain silent.