[staticassertion]

> Your satire rings very flat because it doesn’t happen much in person to person communication.

Of course it does. It is just harder to audit and record. That's why they call it "high school like" behavior - you put a bunch of people in a room together every day and you get gossip.

[mlthoughts2018]

I think this is wrong. The property of high school that led to this being named that way is that high school facilitates immature, consequence-free social contexts where asserting individuality is key to your social status among peers.

In-person workplaces do not foster this usually, with some exceptions in immature start-ups or bro-y Wall Street.

By contrast, it’s exactly the kind of atmosphere that instant messaging environments foster.