num_pages: 256
description: A work-from-home comedy where WFH meets WTF.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.Gerald a mid-level employee of a New Yorkbased public relations firm has been uploaded into the companys internal Slack channelsat least his consciousness has. His colleagues assume its an elaborate gag to exploit the new work-from home policy but now that Geralds productivity is through the roof his bosses are only too happy to let him work from . . . wherever he says he is. Faced 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. But the longer Gerald stays in the void the more alluring and absurd his reality becomes. Meanwhile Geralds colleagues have PR catastrophes of their own to handle in the real world. Their biggest client a high-end dog food company is in the midst of recalling a bad batch of food thats allegedly poisoning Pomeranians nationwide. And their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture. And if Gerald gets to work from home all the time why cant 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? 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 sanityand give us hope that we can still find a human connection.
language: English
title: Several People Are Typing
publisher: Doubleday