Reading It

Report volume exceeds target, Rollo asks if that's good, and the Oracle simply increases the target. The goalposts move before the celebration starts. You've hit your quarterly numbers only to discover next quarter's targets were recalibrated to make your achievement the new floor.

Deeper Read

Exceeding a target is just a signal to the system that the target was too low. Success is always retroactively reclassified as underperformance.