Coworker and I Share a Document Called Budget_Final_v9
The spreadsheet has two tabs. One is numbers. One is us.
Corporate drive. Shared access. Innocent title.
Tab two is messages timestamped during meetings when I nod at my boss.
We delete lines. We rewrite history in cells.
IT could pull versions. That thought makes me sick and wet in the wrong order.
He wrote yesterday: "Can't sit next to you in the all-hands."
I wrote: "Then don't look at me when you present Q3."
We are professionals on slide one. We are reckless on slide two.
Someone will audit this file eventually. I know. I still open it.
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