Please See Attached: Orientation Packet
MEMO
MEMO To: New Reader
From: GB, Editor-in-Chief
Re: What This Is and Why You're Here
Date: Your First Scroll
You’ve been forwarded something.
Or you found this on your own, which is somehow more suspicious. Either way, you’re here now, and this memo exists to tell you what Please See Attached is before you wander off and read something out of context.
PSA is a newsletter about the workplace — not as a productivity problem or a wellness opportunity, but as a genuinely strange place where adults perform elaborate rituals, issue sincere documents about alignment, and occasionally eat cake out of obligation. It’s satire, but the anthropological kind. We observe. We report. We do not editorialize, because the material does that itself.
No breaking news. No takes. Just the thing that was sitting there the whole time, waiting to be noticed.
HOW PSA WORKS
Please See Attached publishes on a biweekly Sunday cadence. Longer pieces run alongside shorter ones. Occasionally a serialized fiction arc shows up and takes over for a while.
PSA material comes from everywhere the workplace touches: the inbox, the all-hands, the reorg email sent at 4:58pm on a Friday. Some of it comes from readers — people who witness something in their own working lives and know exactly where it belongs. If that’s you, leave a comment or send a direct message on the app.
If you’ve seen something, say something.
THE PSA UNIVERSE
Over time, Please See Attached has developed a small recurring cast of institutions and formats. Here’s what you’re walking into.
BrandCo
BrandCo is a company. It has a leadership team, a communications strategy, and a full calendar of initiatives it is very excited about. It does not have a specific industry because it doesn’t need one. If you’ve worked somewhere, you already know BrandCo. It appears across multiple PSA pieces as the shared employer of record for most of the observable behavior here.
Internal Affairs
The Internal Affairs series is PSA in memo form — all-staff announcements, policy updates, reorg notices, the occasional wellness initiative. They are issued as needed.
Napkin Eggs
Napkin Eggs is what happens when the BrandCo universe gets dense enough to become its own thing. A cast of characters and bits accumulated across PSA pieces over time, and at some point the only logical move was to put them all in a room together and see what they did. The result is a serialized corporate satire thriller following a compliance officer who stress-folds napkins and starts noticing things they probably shouldn't. It is PSA distilled. It rewards reading in order. Part 1 is the place to start for Napkin Eggs.
PSA WHERE TO START?
If someone forwarded you a specific piece, start there! It got forwarded for a reason, and whoever sent it already did the curation work for you.
If you’re starting cold, these three will tell you most of what you need to know about how PSA thinks:
The Pooper Effect
BrandCo signs a celebrity spokesperson. Leadership is thrilled. The creative team is not consulted in the way that matters.
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Tracker
A new project management system is introduced. Again.
The Feedback Starter
On feedback loops, what they’re supposed to do, and what they actually do smeared all over some office baked sourdough.
If you want the universe, open Napkin Eggs at Part 1 and read forward. Do not start in the middle. It will not help you.
Napkin Eggs Part 1: Be Bold
I found an egg in my coat pocket this morning and, for the first time in years of making them, I opened it.
If you want something short, start with CONFIDENTIAL: Project DickLocker. It is an Internal Affairs memo. It will feel uncomfortably familiar, which is normal.
WHAT PSA ISN’T
PSA is not a career advice newsletter. It will not help you get promoted, optimize your morning routine, or reframe your burnout as a growth opportunity. There are many newsletters that will do those things. This is not a judgment. They are not PSA.
PSA also does not have a solution. It notices things. It reports them. What you do with that is your business.
ONE MORE THING
There is a small but growing faction of people who receive this newsletter and forward it without explanation because explaining it feels like explaining a bit. The person on the other end either gets it immediately or they don’t, and in both cases you’ve learned something useful about them.
You’re in it now. There’s no formal onboarding beyond this memo. Just show up on Sundays or take the day off.
GB
Editor-in-Chief, Please See Attached (sole employee)
