It's an office comedy, it's a horror story and it's all written in the form of group chats from the various work channels. "Several People Are Typing" is an extremely bizarre little book. I mean he's taking this joke a bit too far, what with always being online, keeping the joke going for way too long and even somehow having his body lying at home unconscious as he's still typing away… oh, wait, he's serious. Some of the staff is annoyed that he keeps sending them messages asking them to check on his body at home, due to him somehow being uploaded into the companies internal Slack channel. He's been working from home, but his productivity is up so his boss isn't really bothered. Hilarious, irreverent, and wholly original, Calvin Kasulke's Several People Are Typing is a satire of both corporate and contemporary life, and a perfect antidote to the way we live now. Also: Why is Slackbot so interested in Gerald? And what in the hell does the :dusty-stick: emoji mean? Top client Bjärk dog food might be poisoning Pomeranians across the country someone is sabotaging the boss's office furniture Tripp and Beverly are breaking the unspoken rule against office romances and the incessant howling of wild dogs is starting to drive Lydia insane.
Meanwhile, the team's real-world problems are in danger of snowballing out of control. As Gerald plunges deeper into the surprisingly expansive Slack landscape, he finds an unlikely ally in Slackbot, Slack's AI assistant, who helps him navigate his new digital reality. His colleagues assume it's just an elaborate ploy to exploit their lax work-from-home policy, but now that his productivity is through the roof, they are only too happy to indulge him.ĭisembodied and alarmed by the looming abyss of an eternity on-line, Gerald enlists his co-worker Pradeep to find out what happened to his body and help him escape. 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. And anyone who has ever struggled with an emoticon. For fans of Office Space, Then We Came to the End and Severance. A work-from-home, comic tour-de-force that takes place entirely in a PR firm's Slack channels-a strange digital landscape where an employee claims to be literally trapped inside.
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