If you had asked me, at any point in three years, whether I was comfortable with how DEG described me, I would have said the question was absurd, because I would have assumed the answer was: they don’t.

And four, which is the one I actually go to those rooms to say.

Write down the recusal.

Not the conversation in the doorway.

The memorandum.

One paragraph, dated, to a file, to your supervisor, copied to yourself.