COMA-19 Idle-Time Amnesty Overuse
Form COMA-19 exists to legitimize short, necessary periods of downtime without compromising the illusion of continuous motion COMA demands.
Following a dashboard update that highlighted continuity violations in bright red, several teams began pre-filing COMA-19 forms for every hour of the week “in case something goes wrong,” citing generalized anxiety as a justification.
Bricky, seeing a complete set of forms on file, dutifully acknowledged all of them, resulting in a perfectly green continuity ledger that concealed multiple genuine outages.
When the discrepancy was uncovered by a separate audit, COMA’s enforcement wing ruled that overuse of COMA-19 “technically preserved continuity” while materially undermining its meaning.
The resolution tightened language around acceptable causes without altering the form’s structure, effectively restoring the previous behavior but with a stern preamble emphasising that continuity is a feeling, not a fact.