Calvin Kasulke

Is it still WFH when you're now just binary code? Whilst working on a spreadsheet for a New York-based PR firm, Gerald has his consciousness uploaded into his company's Slack channel. He posts for help, but his colleagues assume it's an elaborate joke to exploit the new working-from-home policy, and now that Gerald's productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from . . . wherever he says he is. Faced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists co-worker Pradeep to care for his body and Slackbot, the service's AI assistant, to help him navigate his new digital reality. But when Slackbot discovers a world (and an empty body) outside the app, will it hijack a ride into the 'real' world? Meanwhile, Gerald's co-workers are scrambling to stem a company PR catastrophe like no other, their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture, and if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can't everyone? Hilarious, irreverent, and wholly original, Several People Are Typing is the perfect remedy for any idle fingers waiting to doomscroll: a satire of both the virtual office and contemporary life, and a perfect antidote to the way we live #now.

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Sabrina D. 

see, that's exactly my point. we have a byzantine hierarchical structure 

we have a SPECIAL PURPOSE, which we call our MISSION STATEMENT and slap it right on the website 

Even the language of employment is cult-y! We're not employees, we're a "team." That's only two notches away from just calling us "acolytes" or something. And the stuff we supposedly devote ourselves to, like "innovation" or "influence" or "engagement" 

how is that any different from telling everyone you're a Prophet of the Coming Storm?

sunsets are not naturally occurring on the internet.

 I mean, there are plenty of web designers who try and convince us that's not true with CSS

all blues and yellows and pinks and the un-shittiest orange they can find which might be subliminally "reminiscent" of a sunset to soothe you into purchasing goods and/or services

you can't drum up a sunset with sequences of letters and numbers following a hashmark 

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