A short, fictional walk through a return-to-office mandate that arrives dressed as a values memo. The all-hands, the badge data, the commute math nobody added to your salary, the carve-out process that is not really a process, the offer to relocate you decline. You do not win this by loving the office. You read the memo for what it is, in order, and keep your footing while the words do their job. It takes about five minutes.
How it plays
You make one decision at a time, the same real ones the situation actually hands you. A few quiet meters track how you are holding up and move as you go. There are no points and no winning, just where you end up and what to do next. About five minutes.
WHO YOU ARE TODAY
Same situation, different starting hand. Some of these make the good endings genuinely harder to reach.
PICK A TONE
Unhinged, the same beats with the satire off its leash, is part of the full plan.
This is a story, not advice. The company is made up, and so is the memo. The decisions are not, and the real versions, what a commute actually costs you, how to frame the conversation, what your number should be, are in the guides and tools when you want them.