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Welcome,\u00a0fellow office inmate.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You\u2019ve spent eight hours (or more) staring at screens, sitting in ergonomic chairs that feel like medieval torture devices, answering emails that could have been a one-word reply, and attending meetings that could have been emails. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your soul is tired. Your will to live? Questionable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But worry not here\u2019s a book where you can finally relax by colouring in the horror of your daily existence.<\/a> Think of it as therapy with pens: instead of screaming into the void, you shade it in. Each page is a sarcastic meditation on office life \u2026cubicles, deadlines, bosses, coffee dependence, and the existential dread of tomorrow\u2019s to-do list. Colour them beautifully.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or angrily. Or both. Because tomorrow, you\u2019re back at your desk anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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