Frantic-texting your boss and best friend after a viral v...

Conversation

1. Ari, urgent—there's a voice memo of me quitting, it's viral.
2. What—did you send it?
3. No, I never recorded anything; it sounds exactly like me.
4. Send it, now.
5. HR already posted it in the leadership channel.
6. Leadership saw it? Oh God.
7. It swears at Ben and says I'm done with the company.
8. Who would fake your voice?
9. Someone AI-cloned me from that old birthday voicemail.
10. Which voicemail?
11. The one I left for Mom last year with our stupid codeword.
12. Wait, you're not saying the codeword's in the clip?
13. It says the codeword exactly—only Ben and I ever used it.
14. That makes no sense; why would leadership frame you?
15. Because Ben's been angling for the promotion.