That Could've Been an Email!: An Average Week at a Perfectly Normal Company

That Could've Been an Email is a satirical workplace novel set inside a perfectly normal fintech company, Applied Systems, Inc. (ASYS), during a week when nothing appears broken, but everything quietly is.

Told through meetings, emails, chat messages, training sessions, dashboards, and executive "alignment," the story follows employees at every level as leadership prepares for a high-visibility board visit while avoiding the one thing that might actually matter. As processes multiply and acc...