Joan has already had a certifiably bad experience from standing out, and one would think this would make her more cautious. In a way, it has; her first instinct is fear. It's just that her infraction-- telling a mailman to fuck himself-- seems so small. Are they really going to punish her for that? She ought to see the limits of what she can get away with. She needs to start forming a plan.

So she does, in her own way. "What are you, a narc?"