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From Tribal to Trainable
The org wants AI agents. Frop supplies the context nobody documented.
Read stripOriginal workplace satire
Workplace humour for people who look professional while quietly malfunctioning.
Frop takes the work seriously. The office takes the appearance of work seriously.
Latest strip
From Tribal to Trainable
Frop is asked to capture organisational memory for AI agents—then discovers that context is the part nobody can automate.
The archive
The things we say at work
Short strips about the work nobody sees, the theatre everyone sees, and the meeting that arrives when someone says “quick.”
A Fropessional side arc
Clean Exit
We remove the rubbish. The rubbish sometimes explains everything.
After everyone leaves, the Clean Exit crew clears meeting rooms, abandoned project war rooms and desks left behind by restructures. They see what the organisation forgot to hide.
People hide information from employees. Nobody hides it from the bin.
Clean Exit · Episode 1
General Waste
Confidential restructuring papers reveal an organisational change before the town hall does.
Read stripClean Exit · Episode 2
The Forgotten Whiteboard
Transparency becomes a facilities issue when the real strategy is left behind after a meeting.
Read stripClean Exit · Episode 3
The Printer Remembers
The confidential salary leak is eventually traced back to the person who pressed Print.
Read stripClean Exit · Episode 1
General Waste
A disposal bin contains organisational news that has not yet been announced to the people affected by it.
Clean Exit · Episode 2
The Forgotten Whiteboard
After an executive strategy session, the cleaners discover an un-erased action item beneath a promise of transparency.
Clean Exit · Episode 3
The Printer Remembers
An investigation into a salary-information leak overlooks the printer’s output tray—and the cleaner who notices it.
From the archive
Business Case
A transformation initiative needs a business case before anyone can say what it is selling.
From the archive
Priorities
A request to prioritise becomes an instruction to treat every request as equally urgent.
From the archive
RFP: When FOMO Beats Common Sense
A familiar client name, sunk costs, and a rush to sign turn basic due diligence into an inconvenient objection.
From the archive
The Last Employee
Frop meets a former senior vice president still waiting for one last approval before he can truly leave.
From the archive
Career Loyalist
The person who makes the organisation work can become the person it cannot imagine moving.
From the archive
The Forwarded “Feedback”
A late-night deck receives two words of feedback—forwarded without explanation or a conversation.
From the archive
The Work Nobody Sees
Everyone appears busy. Frop does the work, then watches visibility collect the recognition.
From the archive
The Opposite Proposal
Frop brings six months of careful preparation to a meeting where the requested solution is simply its opposite.
Office ecosystem
The people and forces around the meeting.
Frop carries the point of view. These recurring characters explain why the calendar keeps getting heavier.
RECURRING
The Slacker
Does the bare minimum, then receives credit with impressive calm.
RECURRING
Corporate Optimist
Believes every town hall. Has never met a transformation she could not applaud.
RECURRING
Silent Competent One
Fixes the difficult thing quietly, then says one sentence that explains the actual problem.
RECURRING
HR / Compliance
Appears after the damage, with a policy link and a helpful new portal.
RECURRING
Meeting Monster
Grows whenever someone says “quick sync.” Feeds on agendas, invites, and actions without owners.
Meet the team
Everyone is doing their best.
Some are doing it in slides.
No villains. Just people with incentives, calendars, and a professional interest in making uncertainty somebody else’s next step.
The audience viewpoint
Frop
Careful, helpful, and somehow still responsible for work that arrived without an owner.
His workplace superpower
He sees dependencies before they become emergencies.
The manager
The Manager
Turns unowned questions into assigned work, with polished and plausible confidence.
Her recurring contradiction
“Take ownership, but keep us aligned before making decisions.”
Head of Transformation
Victor Vision
Can see the future clearly, provided nobody asks for its operating model.
His blind spot
Execution detail.
Business Unit Head
Brandon Bigwins
Can turn a complicated question into a target, an ROI figure, and a Friday deadline.
His blind spot
He treats explanation as delay.
Steering Committee Chair
Clarence Consensus
Will get everyone aligned on the need to discuss a decision again.
His blind spot
Final decisions make excellent future agenda items.
Executive Sponsor
Damian Directive
Can make a decisive call before delivery reality has joined the meeting.
His blind spot
Delivery reality has not been invited to the meeting.
The world of Fropessional
The workplace is not evil. It is a system.
People protect their corner, respond to incentives, and turn uncertainty into process. The joke is the gap between the language and the work.
- 01Purpose · Agility · Wellbeing · Ownership
- 02Meetings · Escalations · Decks · Urgency
- 03Confusion · Invisible labour · Caffeine · Survival