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Two panels of a longer comic titled "Robot team steerco". We see a team gathered in a conference room, and then a close up of one nervous-looking product manager saying "so, we made some pivots..."

This week's Lowered Techspectations is a double feature - one comic and one advice column! Check it out: buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...

04.02.2026 18:54 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Cartoon of an older woman kneeling in front of the toilet with her hair pulled back. She's on the phone, saying, "OK honey, I'm going to try "clearing my cookies"."

Providing tech support is a messy job sometimes. 🤢

29.01.2026 00:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Op-comic: What I learned from a banjo (and a frog) When I felt too low to make friends, an instrument challenged me and showed me how to take risks.

Today the @latimes.com published a piece I created with @emenez2.bsky.social! I'm so pleased with how it turned out. Many thanks to editor Philip Gray.
Op-comic: What I learned from a banjo (and a frog)
www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

28.01.2026 17:35 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Colorful promo graphic for Lowered Techspectations with some of the characters in Zoom-style squares.

This sprint's newsletter is a double feature! Read the latest from the AI-powered Replicant team, and an advice column for a new hire. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...

21.01.2026 18:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Quarterly planning - the second attempt Why have priorities when you could have buzzwords?

Quarterly planning, second try. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...

07.01.2026 18:16 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Microsoft is now selling a Clippy pool floatie in its employee-only company store 😅

19.12.2025 15:29 — 👍 64 🔁 5 💬 4 📌 5

That Sh** Cray A progress update.

This week's comic features an update from a sorta-talking robot. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...

17.12.2025 17:49 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

12.12.2025 19:40 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

Sitting pretty much all day It's time to get up and move.

This week's installment of Lowered Techspectations is a double feature! We've got an advice column by Zen Paycheck and a comic by Theora Kvitka. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...

03.12.2025 20:01 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Did Women Really Ruin the Workplace? I can answer that question: yes. Specifically, me—I’m the woman who ruined the workplace. And, frankly, I had a blast.

“I’m the woman who ruined the workplace. And, frankly, I had a blast.” In New Yorker Humor, the culprit speaks up. https://www.newyorker.com/humor/shouts-murmurs/did-women-really-ruin-the-workplace

14.11.2025 16:00 — 👍 64 🔁 8 💬 4 📌 1

Getting to Yes in the land of Noah IT Department is here to help?

Today's Lowered Tech comic: getting the help you need from the IT department. buttondown.com/LoweredTechs...

05.11.2025 19:00 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

3) Wasn't it already hard enough for job seekers before AI deepfake spies came along?

27.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

2b) isn't it kind of tragic that a hacker from North Korea who isn't qualified might be less jaded and burnt out than many American tech workers? 😬

27.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

2a) "Ironically, some of these fraudulent workers would be considered top performers at most companies, he said.

“Sometimes they’ll do the role poorly, and then sometimes they perform it so well that I’ve actually had a few people tell me they were sorry they had to let them go,” Grimes said."

27.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Fake job seekers are flooding U.S. companies that are hiring for remote positions, tech CEOs say Companies have long faced external attacks from hackers. Now, thanks to generative AI, another threat has emerged: Employees who aren't who they say they are.

This is just so yikes on so many levels. 1) I have some schadenfreude that employers launching icky AI products are now getting a taste of what happens when you launch tech without thinking about what could go wrong... 🧵 www.cnbc.com/2025/04/08/f...

27.10.2025 23:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0