Statistics Saturday: Some Signs of a Toxic Workplace

• All questions, including about whether it’s still raining, met with glassy stares and nervous looking-about.
• Curious faint green glow across the workplace when seen by night.
• Dress code is one paragraph plus a 22-page addendum about scarves.
• All your anecdotes about work peter out because of that look on your friends’ faces.
• Corporation featured in eight-part essay on Skeletor’s Bad Management Blog.
• Cobalt-60 elemental holding court in Conference Room B.
• Company is named for the evil corporation in an R-rated 80s movie kids watched all the time anyway.
• Voluntary gender identification box on the application form offers “Normal” or “Difficult”.
• Corporate communication style guides insist on employees using the word “sould” whether or not it fits and even though it isn’t a word.
• Ninja turtles keep showing up to keep nefarious forces from dipping the company in the city reservoir.

Reference: 4th of July, Asbury Park: A History Of The Promised Land, Daniel Wolff.