It’s a universal fact that the acceptability of our actions depends less on the actions themselves and more on the specific, often unspoken, rules of the scenario we find ourselves in. Take, for instance, the simple act of shouting. Bellowing[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The first day on a new job is full of awkward introductions, a firehose of information, and the soul-crushing weight of a hundred-page HR manual. You’re handed a stack of forms and a login for a training module that was[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
While Hogwarts churns out Chosen Ones and professional Quidditch players, the real wizarding workforce trains at institutions like Frogwarts School of Janitorial Wizardry, where students don’t chase glory—they chase the enchanted equivalent of gum wads off the undersides of desks.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The modern workplace is less humans collaborating and more humans frantically appeasing their robot overlords. AI has slithered into every corner of office life, from the chatty Slack bot that suggests synergistic paradigm shifts (read: nonsense) to the HR algorithm[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Every company’s messaging platform has a shadow economy of channels where actual work goes to quietly expire while employees build elaborate civilizations of nonsense. These digital speakeasies operate under the thin veneer of professional communication while hosting everything from passionate[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Ah, the annual employee survey—a sacred corporate ritual where companies pretend to care about your opinions, and employees pretend they believe them. These digital interrogations promises that your voice matters while delivering results that are promptly filed under things we[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…