Executive Rising

She smiled, stretching her lips upward, as she realized she had reached the glass ceiling. But there was no emotion, no feeling, only a rage that she could hardly contain. The men in the boardroom looked with self- satisfaction as the CEO gave his choice for President of the corporation. They fully realized that they must keep this resounding force down among the women where she belonged. She was beautiful, it was true, and way more capable than the rest of them, but they knew they must keep their good old boy society if they wanted to succeed.

“This is not fair!” she told herself. “They will be very sorry because I will never let them get the upper hand.” The smug gentlemen had no idea of the extent she could make them suffer. How did they ever think she had gotten this far when all the men held her back?

But Lilah went home angry that evening and began to hatch her plan. After all, she had done it before and had never been caught. She always got what she wanted, of that she was certain. She went into her safe and removed the anthrax that she had stored there for just such occasions, handling it carefully with a gas mask and gloves. Using her key to the office, she went in late that night and scattered the poison around the air vent of the boardroom. She called the CEO late that evening and said she was sick.

“Just because I didn’t pick you as President, you don’t have to be a sore loser,” he smirked. “I fully expect you to be there tomorrow to run the meeting because I’m going out of town. That is, if you plan to keep your job!”

Lilah again called him the next morning and said she couldn’t come in. The boss decided to cancel his meeting and go in instead. Soon the powdery fumes seeped into the boardroom, the pompous men began gasping and were rushed to the hospital where most of them died a painful death. The few that survived would never again be able to run a company, suffering physical and mental problems the remainder of their lives.

No matter how much Lilah was begged, she refused to come in to straighten out the corporation. “It’s an unsafe work space.” she said.

But you can’t keep a good psychopath down as she went on to do what she must to open her world to opportunity.