Laurel van der Toorn

Oh, really?

Okay.

That's the correct answer.

Good thing I'm not at a big corporation anymore.

Or applying for a job, right?

So that's the logic of this, I think, is that, you know, you do something to employees they don't like, they find ways to get back at you.

What is quirky here, as you say, is that this is a pretty common thing.

If you go to gift card and birthday card companies, you know, Hallmark and all the big names, they've all got special sections on belated birthday cards.

That means they assume that a lot of people are going to forget to do it and they're going to do it late.

And the belated cars always kind of, you know, just make fun of it, you know, make fun of yourself.

So it's portrayed as something really light and simple.

And that's partly what was the pitch of this paper to the journals was how low could you go and it still have an effect on employees.

And as you say, what's interesting here is this seems pretty trivial.

And yet it still matters.

That's the interesting thing, right?

So suppose I'm the average employee at a corporation like this.

I'm not overly petty, but I'm also not overly forgiving.

And I get that card a day late.

How am I likely to respond?

Am I more likely to not show up at work?