The experience is worse than any walk of shame one sees for people being voted off the program in any television reality show. A woman who is in her upper middle ages had been working in her mid-level management office job for twelve years. She had done all of the right things. She had both a bachelor’s and master’s degree in her field. Her colleagues enjoyed her, as did the people who worked in her department whom she supervised. She kept a cordial relationship with upper management. She wore company clothing with the corporate logo on her polo shirt. Her life was fully on schedule as two of her children were currently in college. What could go wrong?

One sunny Friday afternoon at 4:30 p.m. two armed uniformed security guards from the company headquarters entered her office. They presented…