About Manager OTG

This is a publication about Manager OTG.

Manager OTG is a director of something. The something rotates. He has been a director of Operations, Customer Success, Growth, Enablement, Strategy, and twice — at the same company, six months apart — a director of Special Projects. He travels a lot. That's where the OTG ("On The Go") comes from. He is, somehow, simultaneously your boss and someone else's boss, in two cities, on a Tuesday. His green dot is always on. He is, in his off hours, eating a string cheese over the sink.

We write about him because someone has to. We've worked for him. You've worked for him. Greg, in fact, still works for him.

What we publish

Short stories. Field reports. Glossaries. Annotated screenshots — out-of-office replies, Slack threads, calendar invites. Taxonomies of meeting types. Profiles of Manager OTG in different industries (he is, somehow, also a director of something at a consultancy). Pieces about the people around him: Greg the IC who runs everything; Priya the PM who runs the meetings that matter; Marcus the new hire from Crestmark; Sarah who has not turned her camera on in fourteen months; Dana, Manager OTG's own manager, who sees through him completely and uses it; Kyle from People Ops, who reacts to everything with the 🙏 emoji.

Real product names appear because they are the texture of his world — Slack, Notion, Zoom, LinkedIn, Peloton, Allbirds, Calendly, Mentimeter, Substack. The companies in our stories are Lumenwave, Nilbox, Helio Group, and Crestmark. Manager OTG has, somehow, been a director at all four. He will be a director at a fifth by Q4.

What this site isn't

• Career advice. If a piece makes you want to quit, we are not going to tell you to. We're not licensed for that.
• Management advice. If you recognize yourself in one of these and feel called out, we are not telling you how to fix it. We are not coaches.
• News in any traditional sense. The stories are written. They are observed. The line between those, around Manager OTG, has always been blurry.
• HR-actionable.

How it's funded

Display ads. That's it. No paid tier. No newsletter you can pay for. No data sales. The ads keep this free.

Submissions

If you have a story about Manager OTG — something he did, something he said, something he scheduled, something he forwarded with "Thoughts?" — send it to hello@managerotg.com. We can't promise to publish. We can promise to read. Byline can be your real name, a pseudonym, or "submitted by a former direct report," which is the most common one.

The legal stuff

This site is for entertainment. It does not constitute legal, tax, accounting, financial, career, or management advice. The full legal framing — including the fact that we present everything here as commentary and satire, that any resemblance between Manager OTG and a specific real person is coincidental, and that you should not make decisions about anything based on a publication like this — lives in the Terms. Read them before assuming anything you read here is HR-actionable.

Contact

Tips, complaints, story ideas, cease-and-desist drafts, photos of the OOO he sent you: hello@managerotg.com.