Yang Ruoqian decided that if the threshold insisted on existing, it should become useless.
Hard thresholds saved money.
Soft thresholds bent.
Bent things could be abused.
Abuse could create cost.
Cost was still the only employee he trusted.
At nine, he announced:
"The visit threshold must be soft."
The operations manager asked, "How soft?"
"Very."
"Can you define very?"
"No."
"Then staff will use judgment."
"Good."
"Judgment improves with repeated cases."
"Bad."
Judgment was experience wearing a cheaper coat.
At ten, Lu Shuyuan proposed wording.
Visits may be considered when there is some reason.
Yang liked some.
Some was weak.
Some was vague.
Some could drag travel out of hiding.
Finance read it.
"Some reason may still require staff to identify at least one concrete factor."
"No concrete factor."
"Then no approval."
"Soft approval."
"Approvals are rarely soft in accounting."
Yang looked at finance.
Finance looked back like a closed gate.
