The meeting was in the conference room on the third floor. It had started at two. At three-thirty the director was still on the second-to-last slide. The restructuring word had come up twice and this time it was clear. He had seen his name on one of the earlier slides in a way that did not mean more responsibility. He stopped trying to read between the lines of the chart and sat back. The decision had been made somewhere weeks ago, in a room without him, and all this was the announcement. His coffee cup was empty. He watched the slide. He would hear the rest, and then he would go back to his desk and update his resume, and that was the week now.
