We attended a one-hour meeting to decide the date of the next meeting. This is our visual essay about that experience, and about the fourteen people who bravely endured it.
Survival Tips for the Nine-to-Five
Office life is a sitcom where nobody signed up for the cast. Here is how our staff keep morale above sea level.
- Never reply-all before your first coffee
- Name the printer so you have someone to blame
- Bring snacks to any meeting longer than thirty minutes
Life is too important to be taken seriously.
Oscar Wilde
Forward this to a coworker. Accidentally forward it to your boss for extra excitement.
A quick note on how this post came together: the idea arrived in our tips inbox, survived two editorial meetings, one argument about whether it was actually funny, and a vote that was decided by the office cat walking across the keyboard. We cleaned it up, checked every detail, and added only the jokes we could defend in front of our mothers.
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