This humorous scene presents a beautiful fractal of American office life. The soup of politeness, defensiveness, misaligned expectations and incentives, barely-suppressed self-loathing and rage, and bullshit? Surely recognizable to anyone who ever sank into the trance of Medium Busy—or the the ludic loop for which it is a euphemism.
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