The Pretender Playbooks

The Official Guide To
Looking Busy.

100 ways to appear indispensable without the inconvenience of actual work.

A field manual for the modern professional who has mastered the art of hardly working while looking like they're working hard.

If we paid for reviews, they would be here:

The Quarterly Business Review
★★★★★

Linked-Influencers Weekly
★★★★★

Your Manager
★½

All publications above are entirely fictional. Like most of your productivity.

A TASTE OF WHAT TO EXPECT

Four tips from the master
himself.

Disclaimer: Please follow this advice knowing That it is your own performance review at risk.

Plus 10 original comics

Image of man in an ill-fitting blazer at his desk not doing any work.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Meet Will B. Laffin

Will B. Laffin is a 32-year old corporate verteran. He works remotely from his quiet home in the West of Ireland but if his IP address is showing him to be in Spain then his VPN must be acting up. Again.Winner of the 2021 Company-Wide Return-To-Office Mandate Mr. Laffin prides himself on his dedicated to corporate workers' rights and his tenacity in keeping the human resources department on their toes.The Official Guide to Looking Busy is Will's first book and he is currently in a research phase for his next publication, The Art of Remote Working Illusion.
Stay tuned until he circles back.


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