Your Permanent File

Have you ever seen your personnel file? Or any other file? I remember in high school and college, the big threat was that you didn't want to make any mistakes or else "it's going in your permanent file." Nothing good ever goes in the permanent file. Only bad stuff.

What file? Where's it at? Can I see a copy? No. It's private. Only those with a legitimate interest can look at the file.

It's like somewhere, there's all these files on people. With lots of bad stuff in them. Because that's where you put the bad stuff. Nobody gets paid to document the good stuff and put that in the file.