It's turtles all the way down!

Update: the Analyst finally arrived… He walked in at 12:02, legal pad in hand I said "where have you been" He said "I need you to understand" He sat down in the chair, he looked different somehow Like a man who had seen things he couldn't say how He said "boss man it started at five on the dot Karen handed us flashlights and said 'give it a shot' She said 'phones stay outside, this is sacred team space' Then she pulled out her own and was scrolling mid-place She makes rules for the team that she'd never obey But it's 'mandatory fun' and we don't get a say The company paid for this room by the hour But shareholder value was eroding by the hour They locked us inside, or at least that's what we thought We searched for the clues that the escape room had brought Karen made us do icebreakers first thing in the room While we could have been solving she set up a Zoom She said 'let's go around and say how we all feel' I said 'I feel like leaving,' she said 'that's not ideal' Then she asked us to share our most vulnerable thought The controller said 'Tired,' which is all that he's got Someone asked about synergies, someone asked about goals Someone brought up alignment and collaborative roles Karen asked for our pronouns, went person by person I said 'I don't have pronouns, I have adjectives instead' She said 'that's not a thing,' I said 'your own policy said' I sat in the corner and I opened my pad I took notes on the clues because you always said: Read everything once, then read it again The answer is usually right there on page ten By midnight the flashlight had started to fade Karen said 'this is bonding,' I said 'this is unpaid' Karen judged every answer, corrected each thought But the value she'd added was zilch, zero, naught She was quick with opinions on what we should be But the door to the exit? She just couldn't see At 6am Saturday I couldn't take any more So I walked to the exit and I pushed on the door" It opened. He paused, and the room became still I said "what happened next" and he said "if you will I walked out to my car and I sat for a while In my driveway at home, not a thought, not a smile Because I spent thirteen hours searching for a key To a door that was open, the whole time, for free And it made me think, boss, about all that I do Every meeting that could have been an email or two Every policy followed that nobody read Every Friday I stayed when I could have just left instead" He looked at me then with a look that I knew It's the look that I give when I know something's true I sat with that, quiet, for a moment or three That kid spent thirteen hours locked up with HR's debris Survived all the icebreakers, Zooms, Karen's pronouns and collaborative feels Took notes on a legal pad no one had asked for Walked up to the door and did what no one else saw Pushed it open Drove home I said "one final question before you sit down" He said "yes boss" I said "after all that, the Zoom and the clown What do you identify as, now that you're free?" He looked at me steady He said just one word "Earned." That kid just earned his first adjective Make common sense common again Plz fix. Thx. Sent from my iPhone

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