Office politics Memes

Ah, the sacred chain of command. The meme shows a PM sprinting at Olympic speed when they discover someone has dared to speak directly to a developer. Nothing triggers project manager fight-or-flight response quite like circumventing their authority. That frantic dash represents the pure panic of potentially losing control of the narrative—or worse, discovering a developer agreed to something with a 2-day timeline instead of the PM's carefully padded 2-week estimate. The bureaucratic equivalent of "I'LL HANDLE THIS."

The eternal developer dilemma. Finish something in 4 hours that management estimated would take 6 months, and now you're stuck with the worst decision of your career: be honest and get rewarded with 5x more work, or pretend you're "still working on it" while secretly learning Rust on company time. The haunted look in that wojak's eyes tells the whole story. He's been here before. Last time he spoke up, they "rewarded" him with the legacy codebase nobody wants to touch. The time before that? On-call duty for a year. Pro tip: always multiply your estimates by 3, finish early, and keep a private stash of "almost done" screenshots for those status meetings. It's not procrastination, it's expectation management .