The Breakout Room
Every office has one: a bland little glass box where time slows down and meetings drag on. But in this building, the breakout room doesn't just waste your time - it takes it from you. When a late-afternoon catch-up runs past five o'clock, the doors won't open, the clock won't move, and the air grows colder with every excuse to "just stay five more minutes."
Colleagues bicker, secrets surface, and the realisation sets in: no one gets out until the breakout room decides they can. And by then, it may not just be the meeting that's over.