He sat with his wife’s photo, waiting for a son who had already boarded without him

to life, the consequences of Graham’s impulsive tantrum were already unfolding across my inbox like a slow, inevitable detonation. A thread of internal emails, dozens long, revealed the chaos in real time.

Clark: I can’t complete the audit prep. The reconciliation algorithm keeps producing error codes I don’t recognize.

Operations Lead: That’s because continue reading …