I was going to ask why she beating herself up so over a prospective employee declining an offer but the flashbacks of her personally sitting in on the interviews for the first time as new prez and organizing a welcome event to establish a rapport with her new employees made me think she must have felt really discouraged like she personally drove them away and when they used an outside party to formally inform it left her with no avenue to discover what went wrong.
It also wasn't mentioned in the chapter, but if there was a pool of applicants she might also have felt a tinge of guilt for passing over other prospective hires needing/hoping for an opportunity for one that ended up being a dead end. Add on serious abandonment issues and yeah poor girl needs a cold one or two (or several) and a warm hug.
