Someone posted an anonymous review of our company online. They made one mistake. They used a semicolon. The review said leadership changed priorities constantly, promotions were unclear, and the free snacks did not make up for understaffing. I was not interested in the criticism. Employees are entitled to feedback. I was interested in the punctuation. There are only four people here who regularly use semicolons. I pulled writing samples. One employee used them incorrectly. Eliminated. One employee only used them in client emails. Unlikely. One employee had used the phrase “constantly changing priorities” in an engagement survey six months earlier. Now we had convergence. A strategist denied writing the review. I told her I had not accused her. She asked why I had printed 12 examples of her writing and highlighted every semicolon. I said we were conducting a communication-style audit. She pointed out that the review mentioned free snacks and everyone knew we had free snacks. Good point. I expanded the investigation. By Friday, I had analyzed punctuation patterns from 92 employees. Leadership asked me to stop. I told them I would. Then an updated review appeared saying HR was “weirdly obsessed with finding the author.” No semicolon. They are adapting.