Lowered Techspectations

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Helping you deal with working in tech. Featuring advice columnist Zen Paycheck and comics by @theorangefedora.bsky.social Biweekly newsletter here: https://buttondown.com/LoweredTechspectations

Photo of the artist in front of paper comics pages
two comics panels showing the robot team in the alpha plane, starting off with the goal of building a replicant style robot, then ending up with a smoke detector.
A woman kneels on the floor in front of the toilet with her hair pulled back. Towards her phone, she says "Ok, honey, I'm going to try 'clearing my cookies'".
Profile of Darlington, with a short bio and a drawing of him. He has a pig head and 1950's Dad glasses. He's "great at building speech recognition models, bad at communication"
Screenshot of a linkedin invite from Dogboss Hound, CEO of Strategent
Cartoon panel of two women in a conference room, one is saying "Hey Liz, now that it's just us, I can tell you about that guy in the meeting."
Two panels of a longer comic titled "Robot team steerco". We see a team gathered in a conference room, and then a close up of one nervous-looking product manager saying "so, we made some pivots..."
Cartoon of an older woman kneeling in front of the toilet with her hair pulled back. She's on the phone, saying, "OK honey, I'm going to try "clearing my cookies"."
Colorful promo graphic for Lowered Techspectations with some of the characters in Zoom-style squares.
Cartoon panel titled "New Employee Tour". A lizard creature if sitting at a table with an elephant woman and a human woman.