You ask whether observation periods are ever used before formal escalation. You phrase it like hygiene, definitions, sequencing, best practice, because naked curiosity gets people flagged. It sounds procedural enough, but even you can hear the question stepping toward the restricted part of the room, the place where language stops being abstract and starts being liability. Your pulse ticks in your throat. You imagine compliance mentors, paper trails, the intern’s cheerful nickname turned into evidence. Isabella does not shut the door. She rests her hand on it, still polite, still professional, still unmistakably a warning. [[Role Boundary Check|Ask about role boundaries]] [[Hold-30 Exception Rule|Ask about the Hold-30 exception rule]]