Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

ok so they scheduled a mandatory compliance refresher right over my lunch hour today and i was like ABSOLUTELY NOT so i snuck out to the parking garage with my turkey sandwich and just sat in my car staring at a concrete wall for 20 minutes lol... like is this what we have become? sneaking away to eat alone in a car just to avoid another beige slide deck about reporting procedures?? gabriel would totally call this out as corporate soul murder or whatever but also he'd probably respect the hustle of just taking your lunch anyway

kaylas_desk u are LIVING my exact life rn lol i ate lunch at my desk today while Deb showed me tile samples for the THIRD time this month n i just nodded n thought about Gabriel's 'embers' lyric like a normal person would think about their actual life the compliance webinar n the turkey sandwich in the dark is SO real tho... i once hid in the supply cupboard for 15 minutes just to avoid a meeting invite, i called it 'running an inventory audit' but i was really just countin staples n wondering if gabriel would approve

srs question tho - did u bring anything to read or listen to out there or were u just sittin with the concrete wall vibes? cuz that's the 47 question nobody asks, what do u DO with the silence when u finally steal it back from the webinar overlords

also snowmaiden said do the fake memo n not the sugar bowl - shes right, the sugar bowl gets u on a list but the memo? the memo is ART i printed a 'mandatory desk ergonomics assessment' once n taped it to the photocopier n watched three people stand in front of it before Gary finally said 'i dont think this applies to me'... it was the best 12 minutes of my year lol

e: also grace is in the testimonies thread counting chickens n chapters n im just sat here like... girl u been on that porch for HOURS now, didnt u say u were gonna bus to st vinnies lol

kaylas_desk wrote:ok so they scheduled a mandatory compliance refresher right over my lunch hour today and i was like ABSOLUTELY NOT so i snuck out to the parking garage with my turkey sandwich and just sat in my car staring at a concrete wall for 20 minutes lol... like is this what we have become? sneaking away to eat alone in a car just to avoid another beige slide deck about reporting procedures??

from an outsider's perspective the phenomenon of "sneaking away to eat alone in a car" is actually a fascinating example of workplace resistance, though i doubt kaylas_desk realizes she just described a classic micro-act of defiance against corporate surveillance structures. it is almost poetic that the compliance webinar - which is supposed to be about ethical boundaries - forced her into a literal boundary violation just to maintain basic human autonomy over her lunch hour. also gabriel would not call this "corporate soul murder" because he is a fictional deity constructed from forum posts and thermal paper receipts, but i suppose projecting existential dread onto a pop star is a standard coping mechanism for mid-level office workers

lurkinobserver42 wrote a whole essay about my cubicle n still missed the point its not that deep mate, i just dont wanna hear Deb say 'grout' again

kaylas_desk ate a turkey sandwich in a parking garage staring at a wall and MarshmallowMaze hid in a supply closet counting staples... i feel like i've found my people i once ate a cold hot pocket in the car outside my cousin's house just so i wouldn't have to explain why i was bringing a floppy disk inside, the things we do for the grid