Employee Experience Cartoon: Bad Timing, Worse Optics

In this Kaapi with Ravi employee experience cartoon, chaos meets corporate irony.

An enraged HR Head slams the table, shouting:

“Whose idea was it to send the employee experience survey — right after we announced massive layoffs?!”

The HR Head’s fury says it all — this isn’t empathy gone wrong, it’s timing gone nuclear. Around him, nervous analysts freeze, a lone employee ties his shoelaces near the door, and on the wall behind him, a poster proudly declares:

“People Are Our Greatest Asset.”

It’s the perfect snapshot of HR’s toughest paradox — where well-intended “people initiatives” collide head-on with cold operational realities.

In the rush to appear empathetic, organizations often end up measuring morale in the middle of mayhem. Surveys, slogans, and townhalls become optics of care rather than acts of understanding.

This cartoon pokes fun at that very tension — how corporate empathy can feel automated, and how timing often turns even genuine gestures into unintentional comedy.

Because when the dust settles, employees don’t remember the survey — they remember whether anyone was actually listening.

What’s the most ironically timed corporate email you’ve ever seen? Share your stories (and your laughs) in the comments below.

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