Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke

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? 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.įaced 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. Whilst working on a spreadsheet for a New York-based PR firm, Gerald has his consciousness uploaded into his company's Slack channel. and give us hope that we can still find a human connection.Is it still WFH when you're now just binary code? In a time when office paranoia and politics have followed us home, Calvin Kasulke is here to capture the surprising, absurd, and fully-relatable factors attacking our collective sanity.

And if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can’t everyone? Is true love possible between two people, when one is just a line of text in an app? And what in the hell does the :dusty-stick: emoji mean? And their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture.

Their biggest client, a high-end dog food company, is in the midst of recalling a bad batch of food that’s allegedly poisoning Pomeranians nationwide. Meanwhile, Gerald’s colleagues have PR catastrophes of their own to handle in the real world. But the longer Gerald stays in the void, the more alluring and absurd his reality becomes. wherever he says he is.įaced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists his co-worker Pradeep to help him escape, and to find out what happened to his body. His colleagues assume it’s an elaborate gag to exploit the new work-from home policy, but now that Gerald’s productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from. Gerald, a mid-level employee of a New York–based public relations firm has been uploaded into the company’s internal Slack channels-at least his consciousness has. Told entirely through clever and captivating Slack messages, this irresistible, relatable satire of both virtual work and contemporary life is The Office for a new world.

'An absurd, hilarious romp through the haunted house of late-stage capitalism.' -Carmen Maria Machado, author of In the Dream House.

A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF.

Several People Are Typing by Calvin Kasulke