Yang Ruoqian discovered that edge cases had learned another way to avoid becoming work.
This was unacceptable.
Work was supposed to become more work.
That was the only honest direction.
Instead, Xplendi had taken the small matter of the edge case file and made it behave like a drain cover over a deep pit.
People stepped over it.
Nobody fell in.
The system loved things nobody fell into.
Yang did not.
At nine in the morning, the assistant lead placed the latest operations note on his desk.
It was short.
Short was already suspicious.
Long documents could hide waste.
Short documents usually meant someone had removed the paid confusion.
The first line mentioned edge case file.
Yang read it once.
Then he read it again in the hope that the second reading would make it less clear.
It did not.
"Why is there a edge case file?" he asked.
"Because people keep reaching the same fork," the assistant lead said.
"Forks create questions."
"Only when there is no sign."
