Rail Meat
ShortStory 4,080 words Recommended by 3 award/anthology sources
"It wasn’t a glamorous entrée into the world of the rich. Ernestine jimmied a service door and climbed forty flights of dingy, bare metal stairs to avoid the sensors in the hotel elevators. Maids and mechanics locked eyes, disapprovingly, then decided she wasn’t their problem and slid past her with professional unseeing."
Quasar links out; the story lives on Clarkesworld, where the author gets the click.