Manager OTG is the perpetually traveling, perpetually unreachable, perpetually "in another meeting" middle manager. He's the boss above your boss, or the boss two cities away, or the boss someone else got. He's everywhere. We just write him down.
A line-by-line reading of the most aggressive auto-reply in your inbox. Featuring the four-day silence, the recursive deferral, and the photo of a sunset he didn't take.
Circle back. Take this offline. Ping me. Help me understand. What he thinks they mean, and what they actually mean.
An archaeological survey of the dead channels in your sidebar. #q3-vision-alignment. #book-club-leadership. The one DM he sent to the wrong channel.
53 minutes. A 47-slide deck. A polling tool nobody asked for. A quote from Marcus Aurelius. One new initiative name.
The gap between what his Slack status says and what he is doing. The red dot. The 💯 emoji. The eleven-paragraph comment that arrived at 11:47 PM.
The quick sync. The standup that's also a meeting. The alignment touch-base. And the org-change email that absolutely should have been a meeting.
A publication. For entertainment, not advice. Any resemblance between Manager OTG and your actual boss is coincidental — or, more likely, structural. More about the project.