Reading It

The Oracle announces Quarter One Correction is complete. Rollo asks what was corrected. No answer comes. An entire quarter of experience -- the surveillance, the peer reviews, the reports -- has been processed, corrected, and filed, and Rollo doesn't know what changed or why. You've received a 'mid-year adjustment' to your role with no explanation beyond 'organizational alignment.'

Deeper Read

A correction you can't see is indistinguishable from punishment. The system calls it improvement; the subject calls it loss.