AI at work · fictional workplace scenes
The overnight ping becomes an emergency
Casey leaves a question for Ollie during her afternoon. Otto calls it urgent in his morning brief because it has been unanswered for several hours. Most of those hours fell outside Ollie's workday. Margo sees an escalation, although Casey had only wanted an answer before their next scheduled review.
Why it looked good
Elapsed time is easy to count. It does not establish when an answer is needed or whether anyone asked for an escalation.
Q1 · What is this really for?
What decision needs this answer, and when does that decision actually happen?
Q2 · Who decides, and did they?
Who can set the response deadline, and did Casey ask for an escalation?
The next move
Ollie checks Casey's review time and records a response window across both workdays before changing the task's priority.
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