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Entries relating to colleagues.
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To lean over an employee's desk during a micromanaging rant, blasting a hot, stale cloud of old instant coffee and cheap milk directly into their face with every word.
Read full entry →Pretending to consider a suggestion while mentally discarding it forever.
Read full entry →A highly modulated, emotionally dead emission of amusement deployed exclusively upwards in a corporate hierarchy.
Read full entry →The societal obligation to shower a squishy, potato-looking newborn with intense, fabricated adoration to appease a coworker.
Read full entry →The horrifying, boundary-destroying regurgitation of a colleague's deeply personal surgical issues before 9 AM.
Read full entry →A precious, unexpected refund of corporate time that allows an employee to sit in silence and stare out the window.
Read full entry →A deeply pretentious footer attached to corporate emails by an HR manager who thinks they are a spiritual guru.
Read full entry →A vicious, condescending opener used by managers to highlight your absolute failure to grasp a basic concept.
Read full entry →An act of pure, unadulterated urban malice, denying a fellow human access to a vertical transport box out of sheer impatience.
Read full entry →The corporate practice of coating terrible news, a rejected pitch, or a lack of bonus in saccharine, fake positivity.
Read full entry →The narcissistic, deeply annoying habit of immediately invalidating a colleague's cold by boasting about a severe flu you had in 2019.
Read full entry →A meeting labelled as brief and informal that ends up being neither short nor conducted on one's feet.
Read full entry →An aggressively upbeat closing phrase deployed with total disregard for the actual tone or content of the preceding message.
Read full entry →Habitually understating the scale of a project by branding it a fast, low-effort achievement it clearly is not.
Read full entry →A deceptively casual verbal preamble that precedes news of significantly more weight than the phrase suggests.
Read full entry →A meeting title that promises brevity and efficiency but delivers neither, running well over time with no clear purpose.
Read full entry →A polite-sounding email sign-off that pre-emptively guilts the recipient into compliance before they've agreed to anything.
Read full entry →A tight-knit office friendship formed less through common interests and more through mutual workplace frustration.
Read full entry →Producing a small, obligatory laugh out of social duty rather than actual amusement.
Read full entry →Falsely projecting patience via email while quietly expecting an immediate response within the hour.
Read full entry →Someone with an uncanny, near-supernatural ability to be absent whenever unpleasant communal tasks arise.
Read full entry →Someone who nods, says 'absolutely, on it', and vanishes the second the call ends, action items untouched.
Read full entry →A sudden collapse of weekend optimism triggered by six ominous words on a company messaging platform.
Read full entry →The horror of realising a habitual, affectionate sign-off has just been sent to someone entirely inappropriate.
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