Hilarious, irreverent, and wholly original, Several People Are Typing is the perfect remedy for any idle fingers waiting to doomscroll: a satire of both the virtual office and contemporary life, and a perfect antidote to the way we live #now. Meanwhile, Gerald’s co-workers are scrambling to stem a company PR catastrophe like no other, their CEO suspects someone is sabotaging his office furniture, and if Gerald gets to work from home all the time, why can’t everyone?
But when Slackbot discovers a world (and an empty body) outside the app, will it hijack a ride into the ‘real’ world? wherever he says he is.įaced with the looming abyss of a disembodied life online, Gerald enlists co-worker Pradeep to care for his body and Slackbot, the service’s AI assistant, to help him navigate his new digital reality. He posts for help, but his colleagues assume it’s an elaborate joke to exploit the new working-from-home policy, and now that Gerald’s productivity is through the roof, his bosses are only too happy to let him work from.
Whilst working on a spreadsheet for a New York-based PR firm, Gerald has his consciousness uploaded into his company’s Slack channel.
Michael Schaub is a Texas-based journalist and regular contributor to NPR.Is it still WFH when you’re now just binary code? Several People Are Talking was published today by Doubleday. And, you know, people weren’t going to understand. You know, I was just convinced that in a year or two… Slack was going to be…outmoded by something else. “I kept on saying…this book is going to age like yogurt. It manages to perfectly encapsulate what it feels like to use Slack for anything, with a dash of creepypasta for good measure. “I wrote it in a couple of months in early 2019,” he said. Several People Are Typing was mostly written pre-pandemic but failed to garner publisher interest until a virus locked us all inside our homes with nothing to turn to but our jobs and our friend-Slacks. In an interview with NPR, Kasulke said he hadn’t predicted how much Slack would have become a part of everyday life when he started writing the book. “If you’ve ever sent a text message or DM or been in a group chat, you’re totally gonna get this.” Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. “Even though the book is written entirely in Slack chats, you don’t need to ever have used Slack or to even really know what Slack is to read this book,” he said. 'Overdue' Ep 588 - Several People Are Typing, by Calvin Kasulke (Podcast Episode 2023) - Movies, TV, Celebs, and more. Readers unfamiliar with Slack and its enigmatically named “knock brush” notification sound don’t have to worry, Kasulke told GMA. A critic for Kirkus called the novel “a compulsively readable satire of modern corporate culture.” Kasulke’s novel, his first, follows an employee at a public relations firm in New York whose consciousness becomes trapped in his company’s Slack channel. Calvin Kasulke’s Several People Are Typing is the latest selection for the Good Morning America book club.
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