<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Workplace Drama — World of Curious</title><description>Original fiction about credit, promotions, the group chat and the person who replies to all.</description><link>https://worldofcurious.com/</link><language>en-au</language><atom:link href="https://worldofcurious.com/workplace-drama/rss.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Nothing Dramatic Happened to Karen. It Rarely Does.</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/she-presented-his-slides-part-5/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/she-presented-his-slides-part-5/</guid><description>Part five of five. What actually changed was smaller than justice and considerably more useful, and it is the reason he gives the advice he gives.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 05:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Workplace Drama</category><category>fiction</category><category>work</category><category>office</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item><item><title>Preeti Told Him to Send It as a Handover</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/she-presented-his-slides-part-4/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/she-presented-his-slides-part-4/</guid><description>Part four of five. Eleven years in the organisation had taught her something he had not thought of: do not send it as a complaint.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 03:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Workplace Drama</category><category>fiction</category><category>work</category><category>office</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item><item><title>The Coffee That Was Over Before It Started</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/she-presented-his-slides-part-3/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/she-presented-his-slides-part-3/</guid><description>Part three of five. He had rehearsed for a reasonable person. Nine words into her reply, he understood that was not the meeting he was in.</description><pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2026 01:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Workplace Drama</category><category>fiction</category><category>work</category><category>office</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item><item><title>Four Days, Three Emails, and Not One of Them Sent</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/she-presented-his-slides-part-2/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/she-presented-his-slides-part-2/</guid><description>Part two of five. He wrote a furious one, a reasonable one and a nine-word one. What he did instead took two hours and changed how he felt.</description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 23:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Workplace Drama</category><category>fiction</category><category>work</category><category>office</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item><item><title>He Recognised the Slides Because He Had Made Them</title><link>https://worldofcurious.com/article/she-presented-his-slides/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://worldofcurious.com/article/she-presented-his-slides/</guid><description>Part one of five. Ade was only in the quarterly review because somebody had a dentist appointment. Then his manager stood up and opened his deck.</description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Aug 2026 21:00:00 GMT</pubDate><category>Workplace Drama</category><category>fiction</category><category>work</category><category>office</category><author>Editorial Team</author></item></channel></rss>