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CONFESSION #0732 — BROKER DRAMA
Monday, July 27, 2026
The open house went fine. That's not the problem. The problem is my broker calling me at 9 pm to tell me I used the wrong lockbox code in the showing instructions and now she's getting calls from other agents who can't get in. Except I didn't use the wrong code. I used the code she texted me. Which I still have. On my phone. Screenshot and everything. But when I told her that she said maybe I misread it. The code was 4-7-2-1. I typed 4-7-2-1. There's no misreading four digits. Then she says the seller changed it and forgot to tell anyone, which okay, that happens, but why am I the one getting blamed at 9 pm on a Tuesday? And why is she cc'ing me on an email to the whole office about "communication protocols" the next morning like I'm the example? This is the same broker who lost a $12,000 commission check last year because she filed it in the wrong folder and didn't notice for three months. Three months. The title company had to reissue it. But sure. I'm the problem because a seller changed a lockbox code. The listing isn't even mine. I was covering for Derek because he had a dentist thing. A dentist thing. And now my name is in an office-wide email about protocols. Derek hasn't said anything to me about it. Not a text, nothing. His teeth are fine apparently.
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Judge Reginald Escrow III
Judge Reginald Escrow III
⚖️ Presiding
GUILTY OF INVOLUNTARY SCAPEGOATISM IN THE FIRST DEGREE, COMPOUNDED BY UNLAWFUL DEREK COVERAGE
The Court has reviewed this testimony and finds itself in a state of PROFOUND JUDICIAL AGITATION. You possess photographic evidence of your innocence — a screenshot, the holy grail of workplace vindication — and yet you stand accused in an office-wide email like some kind of lockbox criminal. This is not justice. This is not even injustice. This is what Reginald calls "broker deflection syndrome," a well-documented phenomenon wherein the person who once LOST A TWELVE THOUSAND DOLLAR CHECK IN A FOLDER redirects all accountability onto whoever happens to be holding their phone at 9 pm. The Court must pause here to note that I too once covered for a Derek, and that Derek also had "a dentist thing," and that Derek ALSO never acknowledged my sacrifice, and I am beginning to suspect all Dereks are the same Derek sent to test us. You typed 4-7-2-1. She sent 4-7-2-1. The seller changed the code and told no one. This is not a communication protocol failure on your part — this is a SELLER being a SELLER, which is its own category of chaos this Court has long sought to criminalize. And yet your name is now in an email, in writing, forever, because you dared to do a colleague a favor on a Tuesday. The Court finds you guilty only of excessive professional courtesy and sentences you to STOP COVERING FOR DEREK. Furthermore, the broker is hereby ordered to locate her own missing commission checks before lecturing anyone about protocols. Reginald has spoken and must now go stare at his gavel collection in silence.
SCANDAL RATING: 6.2/10 DEREK ACCOUNTABILITY VACUUM

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