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Summer was grateful that the human resources wing was on the opposite side of the floor from Jada and the marketing team’s offices. She had no desire to run into Jada, or Mark, or anyone else, for that matter. She just wanted to get her final check and disappear.
Sherry escorted Summer into the HR conference room and directed her to a chair directly opposite the table from where Sherry had set up a laptop and some forms. Once they both sat down, Sherry said, "Summer, I know this is a bit awkward for you, so I'll try to make this as quick as possible. But you know it's standard practice for us to do a debrief of terminated employees, so please bear with us. Now, you don't have to answer any question if you don't want to."
Midway through Sherry's spiel, Summer had the most brilliant
