In the introduction, is the "leopard" stuff related to the Adrian Bott quote: “‘I never thought leopards would eat MY face,’ sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.”?

If so, either I am reading this incorrectly or the author of the introduction is using it in a new (to me) way. The phrase originally, as I understand it, refers to a result of some poorly thought through action committed by the 'victim' of the 'face eating'.

In this context it would imply that the coworkers in the cubicles did something stupid and are now facing the consequences of their own stupid actions.

I highly doubt this is what the author meant to convey, so I can't help but think I'm mistaken in how I read it. Is there an older/different version of the leopard-face-eating that I'm missing?