hazing, maybe apologia but I'm working on these things, MH-adjacent
Anyway, I suspect this was something that, whether it started in BigCorps as a tool by the PHBs looking over spreadsheets all day and little companies are using it for *actual* culture purposes or the other way around, may need to be something people consider more when they decide to form a community, or when they realize one's forming with them within it. (Sometimes it happens accidentally. Humans are weird.)