Variable review effort
Responses may depend on work that cannot share a single fixed duration.
The scene is invented. The question is yours.
Whose urgency counts when only the submitting side has a deadline?
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The scene
Urgent on your side of the desk
The request must arrive promptly. The reply is free to discover its own pace.
An invented scene. Not a real case.
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What the invented trace shows
Invented instruction sheet: submission has a stated cutoff; response timing and escalation are blank.
This is authored evidence inside the simulation, not an observation of the world.
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Where the readings split
Waiting assigned downward
The process may protect the receiver’s flexibility at the requester’s expense.
Neither reading is a verdict. The gap alone cannot settle it.