The Laminator: The World Forum on Passing the Buck

FICTIONAL SATIRE — All institutions, incidents and dialogue in this unnumbered blog episode are invented. No real organisation is depicted.

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Panel 1: Leadership announces ‘A historic agreement’ at a fictional RESPONSIBILITY WITHOUT BORDERS summit in Lisbon.

Panel 2: Delegates point at each other beneath an agenda beginning WHO OWNS THIS?

Panel 3: The AI-powered kiosk: ‘I have found47other departments.’

Panel 4: Ruth on a video call: ‘Which one can actually help?’ Kiosk: ‘Search refined to46.’

Panel 5: Inês asks, ‘Who reviews mistakes?’ Leadership: ‘The model has excellent confidence.’

Panel 6: Inês points to a blank RESPONSIBLE PERSON board: ‘That was not the question.’

Panel 7: A delegate adds J.TAYLOR: ‘That’s me. Let’s follow up next month.’

Panel 8: Ruth: ‘I have a named contact and a next step.’ The record says one task assigned, not one problem solved.

Panel 9: Leadership whispers, ‘We have lost plausible deniability.’ The Laminator prints SOMEBODY.

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