memes

Edit: also being bad at your job makes you an insider threat. So I guess you just have to be entirely mediocre, not too good, not too bad. Do just enough to get by, but don’t do too much. Or too little. Any outlier is an insider threat. Conform. Don’t be different.

This immediately reminded me of "Snow Crash":

Y.T.'s mom pulls up the new memo, checks the time, and starts reading it. The estimated reading time is 15.62 minutes. Later, when Marietta does her end-of-day statistical roundup, sitting in her private office at 9:00 P.M., she will see the name of each employee and next to it, the amount of time spent reading this memo...

Y.T.'s mom decides to spend between fourteen and fifteen minutes reading the memo. It's better for younger workers to spend too long, to show that they're careful, not cocky. It's better for older workers to go a little fast, to show good management potential. She's pushing forty. She scans through the memo, hitting the Page Down button at reasonably regular intervals, occasionally paging back up to pretend to reread some earlier section. The computer is going to notice all this. It approves of rereading. It's a small thing, but over a decade or so this stuff really shows up on your work-habits summary.

It doesn’t seem as fun as fucking a Chinese spy though.

Well... no. You'd be fucking Jensen Huang in this scenario

They do by default, but if they bitch they get exceptions. Because they are in charge.

Everyone inside your company is an insider threat. Just like everyone outside of it is an outside threat. The point is to ID/flag people who are are disproportionately more risky than the baseline standard of risk. The FedEx guy making regular deliveries isn't a flag, but if if he shows up at 2am and hangs out for an hour, yeah that's weird and you should investigate that.