A Day in the Life

If it's a good day, you arrive at work around seven o'clock, grateful for having missed the morning rush hour. Today's not a good day, so instead you crawl out from under the shakey shelf in your cubicle, glad that neither your cranky, obsolete computer nor the stale glass of Jolt cola fell on you during the night. Don't laugh; it's happened before, and putting yourself back together again cost you an hour of sleep you desperately needed. You smell the stench of cold pizza, and what's really appalling is that you're not sure whether it's coming from your shirt, your breath, or a hidden cache somewhere in the cubicle under piles of documentation someone left you to review. That's not your problem right now.

Hart, Geoffrey J.S. TECHWR-L. Humor>Workplace

Dilbert

Dilbert, sometimes referred to as a 'patron saint of technical communicators,' represents a sort of workplace humor that often illuminates TC experiences. This website shows the past month's worth of episodes from the daily syndicated cartoon.

Adams, Scott. United Feature Syndicate. Humor>Workplace>Engineering

Humor in the Workplace?

Over the years, I've been accused of not taking life seriously enough. Although life certainly is no joke, it's not all Sturm und Drang or Weltschmerz, either. Mostly, I think, it's like Mozart: exhilarating and joyous except when it's not.

Tyler, Craig. Editorial Eye, The (1999). Humor>Workplace>Editing

The Love Song of J. Alfred Techrock  

Manley's loving parody of T. S. Eliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' touches on the realities of technical communicators on the job.

Manley, Frank. Intercom (2000). Humor>Workplace>TC

The MBA Sentence Generator

MBA Writer is a humorous site for automatically generating business-speak. It automatically generate sentences ready for inclusion into your business memos, without all of the thinking!

Shor, Mike. Vanderbilt University (2002). Humor>Workplace>Management

Project Management Proverbs

Humorous aphorisms about project management.

Wanadoo. Humor>Workplace>Project Management

The Tale of Three Project Managers

Three humorous stories that illuminate common project management problems.

Roberts, Mike Harding. Freeserve. Humor>Workplace>Project Management

Tina the Tech Writer

She's the technical writer in Dilbert's engineering department. Tina believes any conversation within hearing distance is intended as an insult to her profession and her gender. She strives to maintain her dignity while surrounded by engineers who don't have a proper respect for her work.

Adams, Scott. United Feature Syndicate. Humor>Workplace