Are you "medium busy" with various sundry computer-related tasks?

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. Read the rest