Chronicles of an Evil Overlord

by Melancholy

Rule 63

Domination of Equestria - T-241 days.

“Please, come on, there has to be something you can do?”
“I’m sorry Miss Dictation, but that’s not how we work down here. You send something for incineration, it gets incinerated. No ifs or buts.”

“But surely they can’t have been burnt yet. I only sent those reports down ten minutes ago!”
“Miss, we run twenty four seven down here. These furnaces burn all the time, maximum power, day, night and beyond.”

“Ok...ok...could they have been sent somewhere else maybe?”
“Like where?”

“A recycling centre?”
“Hah! Good one Miss.”

“Oh come on! Maybe I could just take a quick look inside, see if there’s any of them which haven’t been burnt yet?”
“Miss, I really wouldn’t recommend it. Not unless you want to lose all the hair on that pretty little head of yours. It’s so hot in there even the updrafts would take most of your skin off. Why do you think we wear so much protective rubber in here despite the heat?”

"I don't know! We have all sorts working here!"
"What makes these reports so important anyway?"

"The President wanted a full layout of how many troops we had and the effectiveness of the indoctrination system!"
"Sounds important."

“Oh no...oh no...what will I do?”
“Well, when are those reports due in?”

“Tomorrow!”
“Then I suggest you get writing.”

Overlord Rule No:63 Bulk trash will be disposed of in incinerators, not compactors. And they will be kept hot, with none of that nonsense about flames going through accessible tunnels at predictable intervals.

Comments

[Eonflare]

This is why it's important to have backups.

[ShadowWalking18]

That's why you use a combination of digital and paper. Keep all important files on a flash drive, which you keep on your person on in a maximum and hidden security vault only you can access by eye and hand scanning. Print any reports and incase they are lost as in this, you can easily just print them again.

[ThatClosetBrony]

Of course, this is assuming that you don't memorize what was on the report before incinerating it and letting it haunt you before deciding to rebel against your government...
cookies for reference

[Bronzer]

7550257
Which would defeat the point of the incinerator.