Gina
Maybe it was destiny but it just felt like any excuse. Mark’s long-winded e-mail was ostensibly of minimal consequence; merely informing her that one junior manager couldn’t attend the training he had organised. He emphasised the ‘junior’ part, a coded reminder of their shared knowledge that such staff members were set for the chop anyway and so training was essentially superfluous. Gina would not have been so callous, expecting to treat all employees fairly regardless of decisions about their future. With so many to train she expected a few absentees, and just assumed that in these cases they would receive their instruction some other time. The e-mail should therefore have required little of her attention, but Becky Appleton’s name jumped off the computer screen at her and would not
