There’s this genre of cartoons that makes fun of office slavery. For example, here’s a woman who keeps running and running, out of breath, and realizes there will never be a finish line:
And here’s a manager saying: “Run faster!”, as in, you’re not working hard enough, the required KPI isn’t being reached! KPI is Key Performance Indicator, a number that makes it easy to compare which employee is better and which is worse.
In the 21st century, any absurdity and any joke can be turned into unfunny reality:
Now of course you’ll rush to the comments to write about how harmful it is to work sitting down all day, and that standing is better, and better still in a wooden wheel, like a hamster. In response I’d start explaining to you that it’s better to work less, but more efficiently, but you won’t understand what “more efficiently” means. All you want is a new office gadget. Heh-heh-heh.