On Saturday I was called into our Dallas office. We had a huge new client in town from Brazil. I wasn’t running point on this pitch, but I was asked to be there because I was in town. As one of the few women in the company, I knew a lot of times this request was due to appearing “diverse”.
I was wearing a sparkly black dress that was a bit on the shorter side, but still professional looking. I hadn’t had time to do laundry while being on the road so much, so I was getting down to the last choices in options.
We filed into the conference room to get set up. There was a small platform in the back with a few extra chairs. Since it wasn’t my pitch I took a seat up on the platform, enjoying the feeling of being over the table. A few minutes later the clients filed in. There was the usual handshaking and we all took our seats.