[Intro: Corporate Male Voice]
At four, an email crossed the office:
"Please congratulate Fiona on her new role."

[Intro: Female Lead]
Gold letters sat beside my name:
Employee Experience Director.

[Verse 1: Female Lead]
Victor brought a box with one new card.
The title took two lines in smaller type.
No extra person waited at a desk.
No budget moved. No policy changed.
The handbook gained my photograph and quote.
The empty chairs stayed empty down the hall.

[Chorus: Female Lead]
Employee Experience Director:
longer title, same locked doors.
No new budget, no new team,
just another polished screen.
Still, the names we learned remain.
Still, the phone tree rings again.

[Verse 2: Female Lead]
Nina called from somewhere down the road.
Her new job leaves the weekends to herself.
June sent three open roles into the group.
The leaking mug still sits upon my shelf.
The quiet room now has one posted rule:
"No meetings here." The rule has held all month.

[Chorus: Female Lead]
Employee Experience Director:
longer title, same locked doors.
No new budget, no new team,
just another polished screen.
Still, the names we learned remain.
Still, the phone tree rings again.

[Piano Interlude: Three-Note Motif Resolves Upward]

[Bridge: Female Lead]
I could not save each person from the list.
I changed some terms and kept the evidence.
A title cannot grant the power it lacks.
It cannot make me hand the record back.

[Breakdown: Female Lead with Mixed Backing]
No crown. No staff.
No power added.
One open file.
One network active.

[Final Chorus: Female Lead with Gang Vocals]
Employee Experience Director:
longer title, doors still locked.
No new budget, no new team;
I know exactly what that means.
I won't shield the polished screen.
The record stays with everyone who speaks.

[Outro: Corporate Male Voice]
At eight-oh-three, a new invite arrived:
"Mandatory Agile Alignment. Eight-fifteen."

[Coda: Female Lead]
The leaking mug shook once upon my desk.
Another slogan crossed the hallway wall.
I opened up the file and took my pen.
Employee Experience Director.