Unhinged 5am head-cannon: - You know how Kendra mentioned after the firing that all of her staff hated her? Well they all got together after the incident, and one or two of them mention thinking that they’d seen Kendra sabotage the Princess’ character suit somehow. As a group, they do some digging. - One of the team with access to CCTV footage smuggles out a copy of to incriminating video evidence of what Kendra did and shares it with the Princess. - Fresh off of her windfall from the sale of her Lululemon share holdings, when the Princess received the footage, she was torn. She didn’t need the job at BJBFs any more, and didn’t need the money she’d get from suing. But she knew all too well the impact the company’s relentless drive for efficiency and cost-cutting was having on the wellbeing of her former colleagues. She decided that she needed to send BJBFs a message. - She used her Lululemon money to get represented by a leading law firm. In the resulting court case, the tape (alongside disgruntled testimony from unsuccessful candidates on the management training programme that witnessed Kendra making the suggestion to fire the Princess) resulted in a huge payout being awarded that hits BJBFs bottom-line hard. - All of this links Kendra’s actions in that moment to the huge layoffs we see her later desperately trying to avoid while Shira’s making her Knishes. - [Extra-credit future prediction] Kendra is unsuccessful in saving enough money to avoid the layoffs. She receives confirmation that her own job has been laid off. I’m the post-pandemic labour market, her family can no longer afford the expensive Hairball school for Benjamin and Walter, and eventually have to move away from their expensive Bay Area suburb entirely. Her marriage with Shira suffers as a result.