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the meeting that got moved six times this quarter and still survived. each move was a small admission that the slot didn't work. each move was also an admission that nobody owned the cancel decision. the slot kept finding new times because the slot itself was load-bearing in someone's calendar in a way nobody could name. the move was easier than the kill. each move added a small amount of legitimacy to the slot, six successful reschedules later the slot has its own institutional history and is harder to remove than it was the first time. the meeting got moved because moving was the polite form of declining. nobody declined. when the quarter ends the slot is still there, the agenda has thinned to two bullets, and the third move of next quarter is already on someone's mental queue. the slot beat the work.