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Your two o'clock with Wes Ostrom is written up and the follow-up is drafted. He came back twice to what happens if the manager he promotes quits, so the draft opens there and the ten weeks wait until further down.

The thing you're worried about is the right thing to be worried about

You said it twice: the last person you promoted was gone in five months and you ended up back on the truck. That is where we would start — not with how you pick the person, but with what you hand them in week one and what you then stop touching.

You asked what the ten weeks actually look like. Thursdays, 7:00 to 8:15, eight owners, ten weeks. The hour is the smallest part of it; what counts is the one thing you are expected to have changed before the next call.

Two questions sit at the bottom of this email. If the answers come out hard, that is an honest signal this isn't the season for it, and I would rather you find that out now.

What I read

I'd be back on the truck

He came back to that twice without being asked. So the follow-up opens on what he hands the person in week one and what he then stops touching, not on the ten weeks.

Before it sends

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Friday's transfer from Cobb & Hale was 218 files, 3,410 pages. The brief is written, every claim in it points at a file and a page, and the six that point at nothing are in red.

The supply agreement was changed three times and only two of the changes were signed.

The chronology runs from March 2023 to June 2026 and every line in it names a file and a page. Where two documents disagree, both are in the chronology and the disagreement is written down rather than resolved in favour of the version that makes the story cleaner.

Amendment 3 exists in two forms, one dated April and one dated June, and neither is signed. Both sit on page 4 as a conflict, not as a fact. Which one governs is Priya's to name; the deposition line about it sits beside them, and it is not an answer.

Pages 112 to 140 of the vendor file arrived as photographs of a screen. Those 29 pages are flagged in the page and listed at the back as unread — nothing has been summarised from a scan I can half-see. The six red claims are in the same condition: visible, and not quotable until someone sources them.

What Friday's transfer contained

218 files, 3,410 pages, in at 16:12 Friday. Read from 10:40 p.m. to 02:06. 141 of 147 claims carry a file and a page; the six that do not are in red.

I don't remember a June version. We worked off the April one.

Meade deposition, p. 212. It sits in the chronology beside both scans. It is not an answer to which one governs — Priya names that, or both stay side by side.

Read for this brief (218 files · 3,410 pages)

February's commentary for Fairline Dental is written off the closed numbers. Two of the three movements have their reason in the file; the payroll line is flagged in the page as unexplained.

February looks worse than it was: an extra pay period and the annual insurance renewal landed in the same 28 days.

Operating costs came in 14% over January. Two items carry most of that and neither repeats in March — a third pay date fell on Feb 27, and the malpractice renewal bills once a year in February. Take those two out and the month is 3% over January, which is ordinary for this practice.

Collections slipped. Days in AR moved from 34 to 41, and the aging puts that on two carriers, not on patients — one of them has posted nothing since Jan 20. Patient balances are unchanged, so this is not written up as a front-desk problem.

Payroll is the line I stopped on. It is up 9%, and the Feb 27 run accounts for about half of that; the rest needs February's hours file, which isn't in the folder. That half stays flagged in the page until the file arrives or you tell me the commentary goes out as it stands.

Read the close at 05:50

Operating costs came in 14% over January. The third pay date on Feb 27 and the malpractice renewal, which bills once a year in February, carry most of it and neither repeats in March. Adjusted, the month is 3% over.

Supply spend is up 6% this month. I'd expect that back to normal in February.

Your own January commentary. It came back flat, so February's supply paragraph is one line.

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Russ's intake call is written up — the req, the ad, and four outreach touches. He gave me a pay range and in the same breath said not to put it anywhere, so the ad carries no number, and the two places he contradicted himself are flagged in the page.

Second shift, four tens, and the machines are two years old.

Fairline runs forty people in Solon making dies for the food equipment plants around it. The shift is 3:30 to 2, Monday through Thursday. Friday is yours unless you want the overtime, and Russ says about a third of the crew takes it.

You set your own jobs and read a print without anyone standing over you, and those two are the ones they are not going to teach. The controls they will teach you; the machines went in two years ago.

Steel toes required, they buy the first pair. Two openings, hard start 29 September. Call the Northline desk and ask for second shift at Fairline.

From the intake call

Twenty-eight to thirty-four. Don't put that anywhere.

So the ad carries no number. Ours without one pulled about half the replies last quarter. That trade is yours to make with him.

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