afternoon slump

An afternoon slump is the silent revolt of the modern office, born of post-lunch glucose spikes and corporate efficiency ideology. Meeting chairs turn into slides, presentations become lullabies. Those who dare resist can only clutch the false remedy called coffee.

workflow

A workflow is a train of tasks that someone designed, another someone vaguely operates, and which inevitably becomes an endless queue of pending approvals. In theory it promises efficiency and transparency; in practice each added step accelerates the headache. The flow decided in meetings lingers quietly in Excel sheets until it ignites unexpectedly. Its secret parameter, unwritten in any manual, is the boss's mood, capable of halting everything at will. It is the modern epic of wandering through a maze of procedures.