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A weapon of mass destruction delivered via SMS, frantically making you review every mistake you've made in the last decade.
Read full entry →A polite managerial silencing tactic used to stop a difficult topic from being discussed in front of the rest of the team.
Read full entry →The highly tactical, evasive movement across a workspace to prevent being assigned extra work by a roaming superior.
Read full entry →The plague-spreading refusal to work from home, utilized by a martyr who insists on infecting the entire open-plan desk block.
Read full entry →A manipulative request from a friend or coworker that sounds like a five-minute task but actually takes your entire weekend.
Read full entry →A message designed with malicious joy, ensuring the sender's colleagues know they are drinking cocktails while the recipient rots in a cubicle.
Read full entry →The devastating, day-ruining vehicular assault where a driver hits a kerbside lake and drenches a helpless pedestrian.
Read full entry →The utterly pointless corporate role of intercepting instructions, adding zero value, and demanding updates on progress.
Read full entry →A devastating, career-ending corporate error where an employee accidentally broadcasts a snarky complaint to the 5,000-person global directory.
Read full entry →The incredibly intense, primitive urge to physically destroy an inkjet machine that claims it's offline while plugged into the wall.
Read full entry →The defeated submission to corporate data tracking because unchecking forty different legitimate interest boxes is too much effort.
Read full entry →A typed, anonymous declaration of war regarding unwashed mugs or stolen milk in a shared kitchen space.
Read full entry →The meticulous, paranoid documentation of every corporate conversation to ensure you cannot be scapegoated for an upcoming disaster.
Read full entry →The deeply offensive act of interrupting a colleague's flow by physically appearing in their peripheral vision uninvited.
Read full entry →A heart-stopping notification that shatters your weekend peace, usually beginning with 'Just a quick question...'
Read full entry →The excruciating feeling of a boss breathing down your neck to watch you type an email they could have sent themselves.
Read full entry →The slick, sociopathic managerial act of stealing a subordinate's hard work and presenting it to the directors to get a bonus.
Read full entry →The toxic workplace manipulation used to guilt you into working extreme unpaid overtime out of a false sense of loyalty.
Read full entry →A sharp pang of resentment triggered by reading that a colleague has limited access to emails because they are in Tuscany.
Read full entry →A hollow promise to revisit an issue at a later date, usually employed because nobody knows the answer.
Read full entry →A standardized corporate falsehood meaning 'I have filed this away and will panic about it tomorrow'.
Read full entry →The tactical mapping of an office floor plan to evade a notoriously talkative or demanding coworker.
Read full entry →A digital shield used to protect your peace from a colleague who refuses to type their question into the chat.
Read full entry →The polite but exhausting performance of amusement deployed when your boss is terrible at recounting anecdotes.
Read full entry →The dictionary is still being written
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