As I was marched over to an unfamiliar bank of elevators towards the back of the building, I realized I was the prime suspect.
An unreleased design that I had access to, and had done dozens of renderings of, had suddenly appeared on the market—produced by a prime competitor of ours. I was in the elevator with my boss, who was the Head of Global Industrial Design at this particular corporation, where I'd been working as a CAD and rendering jockey for many years.
But I was still a contract employee, not staff. And I had access to this design that few people in the design group had even seen.
The elevator doors opened at a high floor I'd never been to, and
I got my first glimpse of the Legal Department...
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