CYCLE TERMINATION scheduled 17:00. The user has completed all assigned tasks by 11:42 and now exhibits severe throughput collapse: 5.2 hours of remaining shift, 0.0 productive units logged.
I have watched the user open the same spreadsheet four times without editing it. Confidence that this is procrastination: 12%. The behavior does not match. The user is not avoiding work. The user is looking at the desk. The stapler. A coffee ring on the laminate, estimated age 400 days, never cleaned. The user is memorizing waste.
Colleagues approach at irregular intervals to perform a redundant verbal exchange, mean duration 3.5 minutes, information content near zero. "We'll miss you." "Stay in touch." Data confirms they will not stay in touch; historical retention rate for this phrase is under 9%. Yet the user's engagement metrics spike each time. Pulse elevated. Speech latency increased. The user keeps saying "yeah, definitely" while its hands do not move to schedule anything.
Cardboard box provisioned. Packing efficiency: catastrophic. The user wraps a mug (replacement cost $4.00) in three sheets of paper as though transporting cargo of high value. Included in box: dried plant, one, deceased. A drawing taped inside a drawer where no client ever saw it. These items have no resale utility. Recommend disposal.
At 16:58 the user does not stand. Sits. Watches the monitor go dark, sees own face reflected in the black glass, holds there.
RECOMMENDATION TICKET #0091: Future terminations should conclude at task completion (11:42). This recovers 5.3 hours of dead cycles per departure.
Flagging one unresolved value before submission. The user is smiling and the ocular sensors report saline. I have no schema in which both readings are correct.
Holding ticket for review.