Don’t get tightened with stress, lighten your day with humor
Project Managers are like debt collectors who double the demands every hour that passes post deadline. But let’s be honest, operations at the office wouldn’t flow without them. What matters is that at the end of the day, by hook or by crook, they get the job done.
Mail? I-message? Slack? You could ponder for hours but somehow, everything feels inappropriate when you need to reach out to higher management. The absurdity of office rules somehow never gets old.
All project managers know this one tech guy who either switches tabs anxiously or just plain hides under his desk as you come looking for him. When project managers cannot manage such people anymore, the management needs to step up and get more creative.
The boss who personally messages you half a minute past check-in time, the CTO who installs a spyware in your PC to track your work hours and the project manager who schedules a meeting every 2 hours…we all know the type. Here’s some high-quality humour for the ones who have survived micromanaging at its worst.
Does your boss ever expect too much from you? Maybe a turnover of 3 designs per hour or five 1000 word blogs a day? This cartoon is for your team members who are streaming kettles whistling with pressure!
Do you ever thread lightly from your desk to the door during log out time half expecting a jump scare from your manager the entire time? If yes then this cartoon is for you.
Have you ever noticed that the more desperate someone is for a promotion, the farther in line they’re kept during promotions and appraisals? Here’s for all the assistants to the regional manager who are waiting for their respective assistant regional manager promotions.
In the context of yoga and Indian spiritual traditions, moksha refers to the ultimate state of liberation or freedom. It is considered the highest goal of human life. Hence, managements must hold off from introducing their employees to yoga.
After the onset of the notice period, employees seldom continue to perform their duties diligently until their last day. This is become people either don’t know what a notice period is or they believe that announcing a resignation will lead to immediate dismissal or being escorted out. This cartoon describes notice period misunderstandings perfectly.
Notice Period stereotypes can vary significantly depending on the organizational culture, industry norms, and individual circumstances. Professional and well-managed notice periods can help avoid most of these negative perceptions. But they never stop being absurd and funny.
The things organizations do to fire up their reputations and credibility. But the truth can only be masked for so long…
All people in marketing know that the same lines do not work on everyone. Especially when they’re ironically repulsive to a certain demographic. This is a tragic comic about a failed marketing effort.
“The Miracle Widget 3000 will change your life! It slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries, it does your taxes, walks your dog, and even sings you lullabies!” We don’t know which is worse, marketeers who lie, or people who believe it. Either way, liars always pay.
“Got your back?” Sorry, we meant “Ha! Got you!” You’re better off if your co-workers are the pranking type, because the alternative is the hardcore backbiting type, which is much worse. Catch our comics with the best of office humour like this one.
While some of us wake up from nightmares about our boss and face them in real life, the rest have bosses who are full blown nightmares in real life. So, love your boss and be grateful.
Sleep hits best when its illegal, inappropriate and poorly timed. When offices install bunk
beds and ask their employees to make the best of them, they must also remember to have
an alarm on each bed. Otherwise, their quest of productivity turns to web comics instead.
It is an open secret that the fastest way to get an appraisal or promotion is to make the boss
happy. And the easiest way to do so is to laugh at his jokes, funny or not.
You think your work is great, until it’s shredded to bits by your boss. And just when you think
things cannot get worse, the boss gives you a whole new brief and asks you to rework on it
from scratch. Of all corporate comics, this cape one is our favourite.
The True Potential of the People in Cubicles: A Satire
While the Statue of Liberty stands tall in the open beside the Hudson River, there is a tendency for people to flock to the cubicles. It so seems that power, peace, and prosperity are all in the corporate cubicles and behind glass doors. Although people take pride in getting segregated in the cubicles, I feel it’s a novel way to isolate people’s stupidity, lest their brains get contaminated. But the bosses don’t understand this underlying intention. They take pride in being isolated in the cabins and cubicles. They feel their social prestige gets a boost if they are in a cubicle rather than in a common space. This is the subtle relationship between space and power that people most often misinterpret.
Then there are rooms with glass doors. These are the places reserved for even more incompetent people. These are not the people who are born smart. They are the kind of people who are born dumb, and these ninnies are made to believe the more intelligent you are, the more isolated you should be. They believe isolation breeds power.
They end up in isolated glass chambers away from the maddening crowd only to conserve their stupidity. The paradox is, that these folks consider themselves very intelligent or rather the most intelligent of the lot. Some consider themselves the most intelligent on the planet and so they are unique as homo sapiens. They deny the fact that we are all stupid by nature and intelligence is just a faculty like that of the olfactory function. They ignore the fact that intelligence endowed by nature is to make us feel we are self-reliant in this world of natural stupidity.
These bunch of clowns feel they are so intelligent that they are self-sufficient, and their exceptional qualities need conservation. This vanity makes them more imbecile than they really are and for the conservation of Karma, they are imprisoned behind the glass doors. The irony is that they don’t realize this in their lifetime. On the contrary, the paradox is as they become more isolated, their pay cheques become fatter. This renders these folks a sense of complacency based on the perceived value of their talents. In reality, they get their share of the incompetence bonus as they seem to be more intelligent in this seemingly stupid world.
Where are you? Are you in a cubicle or behind the glass doors? Jokes apart, wherever you are, irrespective of whether you are surrounded by glass doors or bound by a cubicle, you have to realize your limitless self. For that, you have to laugh and make people laugh! Read my web comics, subscribe to my comic newsletter, go through my office cartoons, and amuse yourself and others. Read my blogs and newsletters regularly and go through my office comics to laugh and be happy and don’t forget to share these with your friends and foes.
Laughingly yours,
Norman & Ozi
