Freshly detected nonsense
Self-help for the mildly unhinged.
We take the bollox people are told about work, life and becoming a better human, then gently kick it in the shins.
The short version
Biz Bollox is a comic universe about the phrases, rituals, meetings, gurus, frameworks and motivational nonsense that follow humans around modern life.
Funny stories. Stupid characters. Occasional useful truths sneaking through while nobody is looking.
Our promise
We keep things simple: meet the idea, meet the people behind it, meet the cast, read a few letters, and wander off slightly happier.
Behind the nonsense
Between them, Andy Cope and Shane Evans have spent a worrying amount of time working with humans, helping people, standing in rooms with flipcharts, and witnessing things that really should have been stopped earlier.
Biz Bollox exists because work and self-help can be absurd, but people are still worth caring about. So the mission is simple: make people smile, hopefully make them laugh, and while they are distracted, sneak in an idea that might make life a tiny bit better.
Laugh first. Wince second. Think third.
The recurring offenders
Not the whole universe. Just enough of the cast to let the nonsense introduce itself properly.
No. 01
Corporate fantasy cannot hide. Wellness packaging cannot hide. The Siren knows.
No. 02
A man who can turn a family holiday into a stakeholder alignment session.
No. 03
GI Joe's disappointing cousin. Outsourced most of his thinking to prompts and ring lights.
No. 04
Lovely, warm, encouraging, faintly sandalwood and financially unstable.
No. 05
Somewhere between a life coach, a fridge magnet and a woman who has had enough.
No. 06
Supremely confident. Completely hollow. A hexagon on a whiteboard, but make it tomorrow.
Postbag of despair
Correspondence HR never asked for, never wanted, and absolutely deserved.
Thank you for the Wellbeing Wednesday succulent. It has brought great comfort during the redundancy consultation currently taking place six feet from my desk.
Brian from accounts has named his plant Gerald. Gerald appears to be coping better than Brian, although Gerald has not yet seen the revised org chart.
Sandra, Second Floor
My boss says we need more alignment. Nobody knows what this means, but everyone nodded with the haunted confidence of people who need to get to lunch.
Ask what alignment looks like by Friday. Then enjoy the silence.
Corporate symptoms
Useful new language for old nonsense wearing a strategy lanyard.
Forgetting who requested the form, why it exists and which fresh hell you are meant to upload it to.
A major organisational change announced with enthusiasm, implemented with confusion and abandoned quietly.
Explaining something badly to someone who already understands it better than you do.
A workplace warrior armed with strategic synergy, stakeholder alignment and low-hanging fruit.
The uncontrollable urge to share every minor career event as a profound leadership lesson.
Putting fruit in reception while quietly working everyone into the ground.
Waste five minutes wisely
Small doors into bigger things later. Nothing here needs a login, funnel or spreadsheet.
Short extracts, field notes and tiny slices of workplace madness.
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