“Something Doesn’t Feel Right”Shraddha recounted what she’d discovered the evening before. “I was leaving the office last night,” she began, “when I got a text from Uday that said,Baby still sick. Need to give wife a reprieve. I’ll make up the visits next week. Of course, I feltfor him. I’d been in his shoes. The baby is just a few weeks old, and neither he nor hiswife have slept much. He’s still been hitting his quotas, but he looks exhausted.“I decided to stay at the office to finish up my reports in case I had to cover his sales calls.And as I was looking over his activity, one date stood out: June 21. That was the dayArgentina lost to Croatia in the World Cup.“I remember it well, because I had followed the match online. Dates don’t typically stickin my mind, but that day was depressingly memorable, not just because my team lost butalso because I watched the game by myself. My family—like most of Mumbai—hadskipped work to watch together. I hadn’t wanted to get behind, so I spent the day alonein the office. “I had spoken with Uday the morning of the game, and he mentioned that he was goingto watch it. And yet his daily report listed the names of three doctors that he supposedlysaw that afternoon. I texted him about the discrepancy—something like Sorry to botheryou with baby sick. Can you resend your activity report for the week of June 18? Tenminutes later he emailed me the same information, so I texted again: Are you sure that’saccurate? He sent back a thumbs-up emoji.”She paused. “Go on,” Siddhant said grimly.“I’m not in the habit of tracking our salespeople’s whereabouts, especially in the case ofUday, who has always been a star performer. Normally, I’d give him the benefit of thedoubt, but something didn’t feel right. I looked him up on Twitter and scrolled back tohis tweets from June 21. He’d clearly been watching the game—at home. Then I tried oneof the doctors on Uday’s report. Same thing: He’d been watching the game, too, notmeeting with Uday. That’s when I started to panic.”