Report or Favor
Requests are flying in from your boss. Real work tasks must be ACCEPTED. Outrageous personal favors must be DODGED. Respond fast — hesitation is not a corporate survival skill.
Professional Boundary Assessment
Work task → ACCEPT · Personal favor → DODGE
1.5 seconds per request · one wrong = game over
01 /How to Play
- Requests fall from the top of the screen one at a time.
- Tap ACCEPT for real work tasks — reports, meetings, deadlines.
- Tap DODGE for personal favors — anything your boss has absolutely no right to ask.
- You have 1.5 seconds per request. Hesitate and you're done.
- One wrong answer ends the test. Your streak is your score.
02 /The Science
Rapid categorization under time pressure activates the anterior cingulate cortex and lateral prefrontal cortex — the same neural circuits engaged in conflict monitoring and response inhibition. Workplace boundary recognition requires simultaneous evaluation of social norms, professional context, and personal risk — a complex executive function task dressed up as reflexive response. Individuals with stronger inhibitory control and faster categorical processing make boundary decisions more quickly and accurately, with less post-decisional regret.
03 /Pro Tips
- Anything involving the boss's home, car, pets, family, or weekend is always a DODGE.
- Anything with a deadline, a report name, or a client is always an ACCEPT.
- Do not overthink — your first instinct is calibrated by years of workplace exposure.
- The requests escalate in absurdity as your streak grows — trust the obvious.
- Speed matters as much as accuracy — a correct answer after 1.4 seconds is barely a win.