Job Joss #2: How Not To Play White Elephant
In the last episode of The Office—a damn fine rendition of the original British show, by the way—the boss starts up a gift-giving-and-taking game of Yankee Swap. This is a game in which everyone brings a gift and puts it under the tree for the giving part, and then all hell breaks loose in the taking part. Once upon a time, in that office in which I found my own personal hell, the big boss, Chert Bitterman—whose name really isn’t…