AN ANIMATED WORKPLACE DISASTER

BIG IDEAS.
SMALL PRINT.

One very confident boss.
An office full of witnesses.

Watch “The Memo” ↗Meet the liabilities ↓

A mockumentary about work. Allegedly.

Elun turns a conference table into a paper-rocket launchpad while Mara, Cal and Jules deal with the consequences

HR HAS NOT
APPROVED THIS.this could’ve been an email.

CAM 01 / CONFERENCE ROOM

FICTIONAL PEOPLE. FAMILIAR PROBLEMS.SCROLL TO CLOCK IN ↓

CONTRACT ADDRESS

Not launched yet.ADDRESS PENDING

01 / THE EPISODES

THE PAPER TRAIL.

The big screen.
For a very small memo. Elun confidently pointing toward the episode player

EPISODE 001ANOTHER PERFECTLY NORMAL WORKDAY.03:59

LATEST RELEASES01 · E01

THE MEMO

A memo lands in the office. Management gets involved. That was the first mistake.

4 MINUTES720PWORKPLACE COMEDY

Best watched on company time.

SEASON 01
IN RELEASE ORDER

02Next memoNot yet circulated.PENDING

FROM THE DESK OF ABSOLUTELY NOBODY

EVERY COMPANY HAS A VISION.
OURS HAS WITNESSES.

Welcome to a workplace where the ambition is orbital, the budget is theoretical, and the printer has seen too much. The cameras are rolling. Nobody has read the agenda.

Regards, ManagementPLEASE DO NOT
REPLY ALL.

WELCOME TO MESK HQ / PLEASE KEEP YOUR BADGE VISIBLE

WE’RE GOING
PLACES.
PROBABLY HR.

The ambition is interplanetary.
The problems are extremely local.

Somewhere between the next big thing and the broken coffee machine, there’s an office trying to get through Tuesday. At the centre of it: Elun Mesk, a man who hears “that’s not possible” as a request for a larger whiteboard.

Everyone else would quite like to finish one task before it becomes a company-wide initiative. It’s a modest dream. It has not been approved.

Take the unofficial office tour ↓

Elun presents a tangled maze of arrows while Mara watches and Cal collects discarded business plans — FIG. 01 — THE BUSINESS PLAN. PLEASE DO NOT FOLLOW THE ARROWS.

“At most companies, the mission statement fits on a wall. Here, it changes before the paint dries.— Unattributed. For job security.

Big picture thinking.
Very small whiteboard.

01 / THE MISSION

Think outside the box.

Then ask Cal why the box wasn’t in the budget.

02 / THE CULTURE

Bring your whole self.

Your replacement has not been budgeted for either.

03 / THE METHOD

Move fast. Leave notes.

The notes will be useful during the investigation.

A FIELD GUIDE TO DOING ABSOLUTELY THE MOST

JUST A NORMAL TUESDAY.

Elun explains his elaborate whiteboard plan

09:01

ENTHUSIASM: UNSUPERVISED

A vision arrives.
The agenda leaves.

Elun has had a thought in the lift. It is now everyone’s number-one priority. Mara opens a fresh document. Cal closes his eyes. Somewhere, a reasonable deadline quietly expires.

“Before we start, how attached are we to the plan?”

ELUN / ALREADY DRAWING AN ARROW

Same desks. Different emergency.

A fictional day at a fictional company.
Any resemblance to your calendar is deeply unfortunate.

02 / HUMAN RESOURCES, UNFORTUNATELY

MEET THE LIABILITIES.

12 STAFF FILES
0 NORMAL WORKDAYS

A team of exceptional people.
“Exceptional” is doing a lot of work here.

A WORD FROM OPERATIONS

“Yes, they all work here.
We checked.”

— MARA, UNDER DURESS

Mara gives the crew a sceptical sideways look

THE UNOFFICIAL EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK / REVISION: AGAIN

PLEASE READ
BETWEEN THE LINES.

NOT LEGALLY
HELPFUL.

The rules are simple.
The exceptions have their own folder.

Nobody remembers being onboarded. Everyone remembers being told to “just figure it out”. We’ve collected the office wisdom that the welcome pack mysteriously left out.

01“Quick meeting” is a genre of fiction.

Bring water. Charge your phone. Tell someone outside the building where you are. If a second whiteboard appears, cancel your afternoon.

02Never volunteer an interesting fact.

It will become your job title. You fixed a spreadsheet once? Congratulations on your new role as Head of Data Infrastructure.

03The printer can smell urgency.

Print anything important a day early. Print anything management calls urgent three days late. It will have changed by then.

04“We’re a family” is not a benefits package.

Denise would like this written down. Mara would like it written down twice. Cal would like to know which family member approves overtime.

Office survival kit

One charger. Two excuses.
A document titled “As previously discussed”.

Rafi works in a blanket fort, Cal sleeps with a calculator, and Jules documents a tower of coffee cups — FIG. 02 — WORK–LIFE BALANCE. SOME ASSEMBLY REQUIRED.

INTERNAL MEMO MACHINE MODEL: WHY-2000

TO: EVERYONE, AGAIN

Please stop replying “noted” to emails that specifically ask you to do something.

Regards, someone who has asked twice.

No ink. No paper. Still somehow a waste of resources.

03 / EVIDENCE, TECHNICALLY

NOT IN THE MINUTES.

Click to inspect.
Do not forward.

A few moments the company photographer
was specifically asked not to capture.

YOU HAVE REACHED THE END OF THE AGENDA.

BACK TO WORK.
OR DON’T.

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Productivity is a state of mind.