LUDIC LOG

"Leonard, could you drop this off by Terry's office?"

"Sure. Where is it?"

"It's right across from the Team Communications Center."

"What's that?"

"The Team Communications Center? It's the glass case on the wall with messages for the work crews on it."

"Oh, you mean the 'You Are Wrong' board."

"Is that what you call it?"

"Well, it seems to be a bunch of flyers about how the workers are always wrong, featuring little cartoon caricatures of workers who are wrong about things."

"Well, we don't like to..."

"Like, there's the one about how you should never be late for work because you're letting down the whole team, with a cartoon character of a wrong employee whose car has had a flat tire. Which she should have taken care of before it caught the flat so as to not be late."

"That's really just a reminder that..."

"Or there's the one about how you should never blame other people or departments for your own failure to meet deadlines, with a cartoon character of a wrong employee who is sad because he has to work late even though it was his fault for not planning on there being a bunch of fuck-ups that blew his schedule."

"Well, we really like to think of it as..."

"And my favorite, the one in Spanish about how increased security measures are really the fault of employees for being lazy thieving drunks, with a cartoon character of a wrong Hispanic employee cursing in cartoon profanity-symbols because security guards are strip-searching him."

"I didn't know you spoke Spanish."

"Oh, yeah. I've got all sorts of skills I didn't list on my resume."

"Well, can you just take this over to Terry's office?"

"Sure thing. What is it?"

"It's your performance evaluation."

"Terrific."