In this office, "delayed gratification" seems to mean holding back the first warning to wait for a second, cleaner one. Call it discipline and it sounds like character. Set it beside a margin call and a lender's clock and it is just procedure, and procedure leaves a trail. That trail is where your operation lives or dies, depending on whether you can make the delay legible from more than one angle. The intern's joke. Marc's screenshots. The way a euphemism hardens into policy once enough people repeat it. It is starting to add up to something you could lay in front of Dane without it sounding invented. So you stop admiring her for it. You start looking for where it got written down. [[Delay Register Hint|Read about the delay register]]