Uhh... like... really?

So, here in our Concentrated Worker Production Facility, under the authoritarian glorious heel of our unnamed New York client giant financial information company, a small underground of harmless tricksters have been having some fun at absolutely no one's expense. Names on empty cubes had been changed to things like "Ricky Bobby", "Nancy Grace", "Kimbo Slice", "Tyler Durden", and, sadly, "Jose Cuervo" which I thought showed a truly disappointing lack of imagination that only hurts all of us.

When one contractor was mostly not probably wrongly accused of having a hand what could only be called domestic terrorism, the name on his cube mysteriously transmogrified into "Dr. Richard Kimball", and an OJ-like search was launched for the one-armed, two small-glove-wearing man who was truly to blame.

Since the beginning of the project, I'd used one of our unusable cubes as a home for our sign-in sheet, since we are, in fact, children, and time clocks and steam whistles would have actually cost money. After the first round of unexplained, unforeseeable layoffs, a day after team leads were assured that people would have a chance to remedy any shortcomings, the cube became known as the ******** Memorial Sign-In Sheet Cube and Penalty Box, in honor of our team's own fallen comrade.

Recently, following another layoff of 24 people that came a week after an angry assurance that rumors of an impending mass layoff were untrue, the names of our fallen were tacked up in the now-less-specifically-named Memorial Sign-In Sheet Cube and Penalty Box, along with the photo of the unknown fallen soldier seen in Battlestar Galactica (the reimagined series, since no one ever really died in the Lorne Greene version. Well, Starbuck did, but he came back as some sort of temp angel in a white flight suit to join the A-Team or something).

Clearly, this was the work of some probably nerdy fan of that show, which I have neither seen, nor purchased several seasons of on DVD. This morning, the very nice representative from our employment agency, who actually has a sense of humor, passed this along, having received it from one of the attorneys working here:

Since client's staff have been off-site, I have noticed an increase in pranks, trash being left around and other slack behavior. I thought I would bring this to your attention because I would hate to see negative consequences for everyone at this stage in the project.

I mean, really... what the frak? Clearly, this deserves a measured response, which I shall take the time to construct as part of my team lead duties.