Call for submissions: humorous stories about life in the modern workplace. Could be funny essays about serious stuff, serious essays about funny stuff, or funny essays about funny stuff (but serious essays about serious stuff will have to wait for another book). Submit your stories via our online submissions form.
Submissions deadline: Open until further notice.
Several years ago, I wrote and produced a sketch comedy show called Cubicles. It was great fun riffing on life in the modern workplace, and it was great fun working with talented actors to bring the show to life.
The ironic thing about Cubicles is that the funniest parts of the show were not made up…they were scenes and dialog lifted verbatim from the workplace! I’m sure you’ve seen the same thing…the lunacy, inefficiency, redundancy, hypocrisy, more redundancy (again), celibacy (no…wait!)…it’s so insane that if you didn’t laugh, you’d cry. There’s just an awful lot of silly stuff that goes on in the workplace.
Certainly “Dilbert” creator Scott Adams has tapped into the whole “it’s-funny-because-it’s-true” aspect of the modern office. Now you can do the same: send me your funniest, most bizarre, most surreal stories about life at work, and we’ll produce a book of essays so funny that people will be rolling on the boardroom floor.
To put you in the mood, here’s a short essay about “Making Things Happen” at work.
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