The Exit Interview
She wrote the layoff letters. The sustainability indexes. The CEO's LinkedIn posts. For eleven years, Sylvie Crane was the voice a corporation used when it needed to sound human-and she was extraordinary at it.
Now she is leaving Aldiss Group without another offer, without a destination, without a reason anyone fully understands. She has agreed to an exit interview.
The form has six questions. The interviewer is pleasant and prepared. The conference room is one Sylvie has booked a hundred times before. At first, her answers are correct. Then something shifts. The professional deflections begin to fracture. The mid-sentence corrections accumulate. Eleven years of institutional language-of making omission sound like tact and feeling sound like fact-press toward a reckoning neither woman in that room anticipated.
Told entirely through the transcript of a single forty-five-minute HR interview, this is a novel about voice and its costs. About what a person surrenders when they spend a career speaking in someone else's name. About the difference between the sentence that is defensible and the sentence that is true.
Her last meeting starts now. Don't miss a word.
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