Office Cake Economy Enters Recession; Analysts Predict No Recovery
Birthday cake supply in the third-floor kitchen has collapsed. Economists, and a man called Keith, warn the worst is yet to come. It is.
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OFFICE LIFE
A Field Guide to the Reply-All Ecosystem (Where Careers Go to Die)
One accidental email to 4,000 people. Forty minutes of chaos. How to identify every species that crawls out of the inbox, and which one is you.
MAKE THIS WORSE →Open-Plan Office: User Manual (No Walls, No Focus, No Escape)
Congratulations on your new open-plan workspace. Please read this manual carefully before attempting to concentrate, think or feel anything.
MAKE THIS WORSE →11 Brutally Honest Out-of-Office Messages for People Who Have Stopped Pretending
Ditch 'limited access to email'. 11 out-of-office replies that tell the truth: you'll check email by the pool, and nobody noticed you were gone.
MAKE THIS WORSE →The Passive-Aggressive Email Threat Scale: From ‘Just Checking In’ to Your Exit Interview
From 'Just circling back' to 'Per my last email' and beyond: a ranked threat scale for the politest way to end a career at work.
MAKE THIS WORSE →How to Look Busy at Work Without Accomplishing Anything (Like Your Boss)
The purposeful walk. The spreadsheet wall. The 11:47pm email. Eight techniques for appearing indispensable to a company that will replace you anyway.
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