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And that is why Cassian was crying in a hospital corridor in front of twenty people.
Because Soren put it in writing. Three times. About the staffing on those weekend rotas, before any of it happened.
The November before. The January. And eleven days before the Saturday.
And the person he sent all three of those letters to was Cassian.
Head of department.
He did not pass them up. Not out of malice — I have had this explained to me twice and I believe it. Because the budget round was in the February and because he was told to sit on anything that looked like a complaint until it was over.
So a man sat on three letters, and then watched his colleague be suspended for the exact thing those letters described, and then watched him not be cleared for eleven months.
He said to me, in a stairwell,
