HR commissioned these posters to lift morale. I printed them in colour. Morale has been measured since. It is lower.
Every poster has a Monday count printed on it. Here it's 975, a sample number; in the app it's yours, worked out from your own retirement date and updated every week. The app has more than thirty of them, shuffled every time you look: office ones, building-site ones, kitchen and shop-floor ones, and a series of calm photographs with a small, unwelcome reminder at the bottom.
When they say the pension age has gone up againThe goose has read the small print.Me, arriving at the 9am all-handsCameras on, please.When they call you back from lunch four minutes earlyFour minutes. HR counted.The commute was fine, thanksIt was not fine.Imagine you're here. You're not.Wellbeing resource, as requested.Me sharing this week's big newsSlide 2 is also the number.AMBITION: You could leave. The next chair is also a work chair.Inspirational, technically.POTENTIAL: Every direction is open to you. They all lead to Monday.Every direction. HR checked.Sorry you're leaving!Signed by Gemma, Jemma and Emma.Smoko in five. Permanent smoko in:For the people who start at 6.Last table just left. It's 11:48. You're on at 7.Hospitality knows.Picture this. Now picture the Q3 roadmap.Breathe in. Breathe out. Roadmap.
Why posters?
Every workplace has a poster somewhere saying that teamwork makes the dream work. There's been one above me since the last restructure, and it's peeling at the corners. We wanted the opposite: posters that tell the truth gently and let you laugh about it with the people who are stuck in the same meeting.
They're written for the whole working world, not just offices. There's one for the tradie whose quote said two days, one for the kitchen when table six orders eight cocktails five minutes before close, and one for the shop worker checking out the back for a size that doesn't exist.
How to use them
In the app, pick a poster and share it to the group chat, your status, or the work channel if you're feeling brave. The number updates every Monday, so the same poster tells a slightly better story each week. Every poster is made on your phone; nothing about you is sent anywhere.
Photographs are from free-to-use stock libraries (Pexels), with captions and layouts by us.
