Dilbert cartoons were explicitly disallowed. The schadenfreude happy ending is that the mandatory fun company went for an IPO? and couldn't get funding in boomtime because VCs/banks took a look at their (non)professionalism including, explicitly, the merit review process, and said politely they didn't think the company would thrive under a more regulated format. I was at the all-hands company meeting where the CEO raved angrily about this to his "family", as he liked to call us, and I enjoyed keeping a straight face for it. He had put up a slide with a middle finger pictured at a previous company meeting after some negative reviews the company had received from anonymous employees on Glassdoor.