Episode One: Nobody Muted Gary from IT

Every company has a Gary. The one who's been here forever, fixes everything, gets thanked for none of it, and knows precisely how the sausage — and the AI strategy — is made. For the big AI-first town hall, they muted all 200 employees. They did not mute Gary. You don't mute Gary; Gary is load-bearing. So when the slides start and the buzzwords flow, the most informed, most exhausted, most opinionated man in the building still has his mic on. Nobody gave him the floor. He's going to use it anyway.