Performance

A webcomic with a yellow caption banner reading: "Theory: There's nothing wrong with productivity-assessment algorithms. The problem is that humans are incapable of using them properly." Below, a bearded man in a suit and round glasses, holding a tablet, stands across from a red-haired woman in a maroon jacket during what looks like a performance review. He says, "We recognize this performance review score doesn't represent reality, but why aren't you doing better on it?" In the votey aftercomic, a loosely drawn close-up of the woman's tired, deadpan face delivers the punchline: "There's an amount you're supposed to have and your amount is not that amount!" The joke skewers managers who simultaneously admit a metric is meaningless and still demand you improve it.