Badge shows Rollo the metrics dashboard, and all the data is about Rollo. Badge filed the reports compulsively -- 'I couldn't stop' -- and now Rollo is staring at his own surveillance profile, assembled by his friend. Rollo's silence in the final panel says everything. You've discovered the coworker tracking your comings and goings in a shared spreadsheet.
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The most painful surveillance is the kind performed by someone who loves you. The data isn't the betrayal; the compulsion is.
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Badge shows Rollo the metrics dashboard, and all the data is about Rollo. Badge filed the reports compulsively -- 'I couldn't stop' -- and now Rollo is staring at his own surveillance profile, assembled by his friend. Rollo's silence in the final panel says everything. You've discovered the coworker tracking your comings and goings in a shared spreadsheet.
Deeper Read
The most painful surveillance is the kind performed by someone who loves you. The data isn't the betrayal; the compulsion is.