The games leaderboard for today's shift

One total for one shift

Every day the time card deals the same five games to everyone. Your first daily score in each of them is added up once the last one is punched, and that total goes on the board. It only ever meets the totals of people who drew today’s five, so a game with a bigger top score weighs the same for everyone. The board starts clean at midnight with a new shift.

Solo rounds stay off the board. So does a shift with a daily round you restarted, since the second go had already seen the round, or one played under Take your time, since the clock went easy on it. Either still punches your time card and earns its merit. The board just wants clean paperwork.

What the rack shows

The rack holds the ten best totals handed in today, as a rank and a number and nothing else. Ties share a rank, as they do on any sales floor. The top card gets the Employee of the shift seal, which comes with the same salary as before. Once your shift is in, your card goes in the rack with “You” on its name line. When ten people beat you, your card goes under the rack, and so does the total just above yours if the rack doesn’t show it. Yesterday’s shift stays pinned on a sticky note, so the board has numbers on it before the first coffee.

What the board keeps

Three things go to the server for the board: your total, which five games it covers, and the day. None of them says who you are. The page asks where your total stands each time you open this page or the games hub, as your last shift game ends, at midnight, and whenever another tab updates your scores. Each request carries the day, the five games, your total once you have one, and a note saying you sent it. This page also asks about yesterday’s day and games, for the sticky note. The answers hold totals and counts, and nothing from a request is kept. Every round you finish without Take your time goes there too, so a daily result can say what percentage of the day’s players you beat. The privacy page lists all of it and how long it stays. Your merit, time card and best scores live only in your browser, filed in your personnel file.

Where the five come from

Two of the games to play at work never land on the shift: Phish or IT and Pay Grade are trivia more than jokes, so they keep their daily round and stay off the card. The rest take turns in three-day cycles, and each one works at least one shift a cycle. Every day has one of each kind: a game where you pick the answer, one against the clock, and one played by a rulebook.