Husk had recently hired a new CEO for Q, a quisling of a woman as tech companies are notorious for putting women leaders on glass cliffs. Belinda was no different in the sense that she was both unaware of how ineffectual her position under Husk would be or that no one would ever let her lead a tech company again. She was a friend of the right friend who had now succeeded in guaranteeing herself a highly coveted silicon parachute. It was at Belinda’s mandatory appointment celebration ceremony at Q that Maria was approached by a co-worker she had only known casually as a reverse racist, in the actual sense of what those words might mean outside of their politically charged context and misuse, in as such as he would sell out other immigrants to ingratiate himself with the sycophants and for all appearances was one himself