A group of men in suits are sitting at a table, with note pads and coffee cups set about.  At the end of the table is an empty electric chair.
It's unusual to see an empty electric chair in an office meeting.
Why is there an electric chair here?
And this is our new incentive plan.
scene: a meeting room description: A group of men in suits are sitting at a table, with note pads and coffee cups set about. At the end of the table is an empty electric chair. uncanny: It's unusual to see an empty electric chair in an office meeting. entities: Electric_chair, White-collar_worker. caption: And this is our new incentive plan.
An "incentive plan" is usually a type of employee compensation that rewards people financially for meeting specific performance targets. But here, the company can't afford to pay extra, so their incentive plan is the electric chair: the implication is that employees must meet targets or they will simply be killed. A dark but humorous joke about how some companies view their employees as disposable.