Yang Ruoqian decided that if the calendar could not be prevented, it should at least be wrong.
Wrong calendars were beautiful.
They made people arrive early.
They made people arrive late.
They made rooms get booked twice and managers speak carefully through their teeth.
Careful teeth cost money.
At nine, he announced:
"The calendar must be wrong."
The assistant lead held her pen above the page.
"How wrong?"
"Not legally wrong."
Finance looked up.
Yang disliked how quickly she recognized the boundary.
"Operationally wrong," he added.
The operations manager asked, "Do you mean uncertain?"
"No. Wrong."
"Wrong dates create complaints."
"Good."
"Complaints are not system loss."
"I know."
He hated knowing more every day.
At ten, he proposed the first method.
"Add three possible return dates."
The assistant lead typed:
Possible return: Tuesday, Friday, or later.
Yang liked later.
Later was a large bucket.
Buckets could hide things.
Finance read the line.
