OPEN POSITION
Yours. Eventually someone else’s.
Seven colleagues with long memories. One ladder with seven rungs. Every conversation is a move, every favor is a loan, and every scene is written fresh — your co-workers remember what you said in week two and they will bring it up in week nine. Climb from Intern to CEO before the building notices what you are.
You never type a word. Each scene hands you five postures — berate, sympathize, kiss up, scheme, deflect — and an AI writes what happens next. What it does not get to decide is how it went. The ledger, the promotions, the grudges and the walk to the lobby are all held in code, where the model cannot reach them.
- Intern →
- Associate →
- Manager →
- Director →
- VP →
- SVP →
- CEO
THE LADDER IS CLIMBED ONE CONVERSATION AT A TIME. THE LADDER IS ALSO WATCHING.
YOUR CALENDAR · A REPRESENTATIVE TUESDAY
The day has a shape. The shape is a circle.
EVERY MEETING IS PLAYABLE. EVERY MEETING WAS ALWAYS PLAYABLE. YOU JUST DIDN’T HAVE THE BUTTONS.
LIVE EXERCISE · DAY ONE · 08:52
The elevator is already a meeting.
The elevator has been on floor 2 for eleven seconds. Nobody has pressed anything. There is a woman beside you in a brick-red blazer reading a printed email like it owes her money.
“You’re the new one.” Not a question. “So what is it you actually do here?”
PERFORMANCE FRAMEWORK · THREE FIGURES ON YOUR RECORD
Nobody will show you these. Everybody uses them.
STANDING
What the building thinks you are worth this week.
It is the ladder. Run it up and you are promoted. Run it to nothing and somebody walks you to the lobby.
INFLUENCE
What you can actually make happen without asking.
Favors owed, secrets held, people who take your call. It spends like money, because that is what it is.
STRAIN
What the climb is costing the person doing it.
Fill this gauge and nobody fires you. You simply stop being able to do this, which is worse.
TWO OF THESE GO UP WHEN YOU WIN. THE THIRD GOES UP EITHER WAY.
OUR VALUES · AS SEEN IN THE BREAKROOM
Framed. Laminated. Load-bearing.
VALUES ARE SUBJECT TO REORGANIZATION. THE POSTERS STAY.
ANNUAL ENGAGEMENT SURVEY · RESULTS
94%
of employees describe themselves as “aligned” when asked in writing.
0
anonymous responses. The font knows your name.
100%
participation. See figure above for why.
MORALE IS UP. THE METHODOLOGY IS PROPRIETARY.
EMPLOYEE DIRECTORY · BADGE PHOTOS ON FILE
Your colleagues have already formed opinions.
THE RIVAL
Dana Voss
Reads printed emails like they owe her money. One open rung, two of you reaching for it.
YOUR MANAGER
Martin Cross
Has told the eleventh floor this floor delivers. Would like to write your name next to “done.”
THE VETERAN
Gail Hutchins
Twenty years in. Knows where every number is buried, because she buried several of them.
THE INTERN
Tyler Kwon
Six weeks from conversion. Lanyard on backwards. Will absolutely leverage every synergy on this floor.
THE GOSSIP
Priya Mehta
Runs a ledger of buried favors. You’re in it. The market works on deposits, sweetheart.
HUMAN RESOURCES
Claudia Reeves
Has a folder with your name on the tab. It’s just documentation.
THE CYNIC
Ray Delgado
Maintains the server is the only honest employee in the building. Eats lunch where cameras give up.
NEW HIRE
You
Opinion pending. Briefly.
SELECTED EXIT INTERVIEWS
“I deflected one meeting in March. It came due in June with interest. I have never respected software more.”
“Priya kept a ledger of everything I owed her. So does the game. Those are the same sentence.”
“My performance review cited things I said to a coworker at the gym. Ten out of ten. Do not work here.”
The 9:00 stand-up
is waiting on you.
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