Yang Ruoqian discovered a worse danger than a closed file.
A closed file that could be found later.
Closed files were already bad.
They stopped asking questions.
They stopped attracting meetings.
They stopped pretending to need love from departments.
But an archived closed file was different.
It could sit quietly today and save work tomorrow.
That was unacceptable.
At nine, finance opened the new report.
"Several completed venue files were moved into the searchable archive yesterday."
Yang put down his cup.
"Who approved searchable?"
The operations manager said, "Reviewers needed old decisions for similar venues."
"They needed memory loss."
"They had memory loss."
"Good."
"It caused repeated reviews."
"Better."
"Owners started attaching old Xplendi replies."
Yang looked at him.
The outside world had again developed a backup system.
At nine-thirty, he issued the first order.
"Do not archive completed files."
