Chapter 19: Chapter 19: Proof of Insufficient Staffing

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Su Ding'an mailed out 143 résumés. Just one company called him back. Three months into the job, the company phoned to ask him to cover someone's shift: the gravity shift. Only when he arrived did he realize the force keeping the world running wasn't the gods. It was a duty roster. And none of these duty officers, some of whom had lived for centuries, had ever read their own job description. He had. So when the Audit Division tried to decommission an old woman who had been absent without leave for two hundred years, he unearthed the 4,800 days of annual leave she had built up and stopped the Head of the Audit Division cold.

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