Deposition 01Exhibit A
I have sat through eleven quarterly alignment sessions this year and this is the only one that made me feel seen. I read it in the parking garage before going inside. It helps.
D. Whitlock
Field Operations
Mandatory Reading / Series Brief
Just AskingQuestions
A workplace satire in comic form. One org chart. Three seasons. The right question, asked at the moment it can no longer change anything.
Season 01 · Episodes 1-6 free to read
File S1-E01 · The Happiest Workplace on the Org Chart
S1-E01
JAQ / EVIDENCE
Season 01 · Episodes 1-6 open to the public
Read the open files Reference Exhibit / Twelve Seasons
The season theme timeline
Twelve seasons, one argument. Each run picks up the contradiction the last one turned into a process, a technology or a decision.
Section 02 / More Series
Other Files on Record
Spinoff Series
JAQ Multiverse
The same question, asked across every universe at once.
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S1-E01
THE SUCCESS CRITERIA
A manager presents a chart showing a 100% success rate based on a transformation model, but admits when questioned that unsuccessful clients are simply reclassified as incomplete transformations to maintain the data.
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LA²SE
Life as a Systems Engineer: the engineer living with the consequences.
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S1-E01
A Standard Corporate Week
A systems engineer narrates his week, starting with a Monday crash, moving through unproductive strategy meetings and client miscommunications, and finally finding joy in logging off on Friday.
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On the Record
Three readers agreed to be named. Their statements are reproduced exactly as filed, without correction or editorial comfort.
Deposition 02Exhibit A
The org chart in the strip is more accurate than the one on our intranet. I have printed it and pinned it above my desk. Nobody has noticed, which is itself a finding.
Priya Raman
Marketing
Deposition 03Exhibit A
I forwarded it to a colleague in another department and we now communicate exclusively in panels. Legal has been informed and has chosen not to respond.
Marcus Bell
Legal Review
Form JAQ-1043 / Readership of Record
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Readers on file
1 reader has filed for the dispatches.
Every new case file is dispatched without warning. No dashboards, no metrics, no follow-up survey. Just the strip, filed to the people who asked for it.
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