Employee of the Year Cartoon: The High Cost of Stolen Glory

The Scenario: In this employee of the year cartoon, we witness the peak of corporate performative gratitude.

During a grand townhall, a manager stands on stage holding the "Employee of the Year" trophy and delivers a speech of shocking honesty—dedicating the award to the very teammates whose work and credit he hijacked to get there.

It captures the painful reality of office hierarchies where visibility is rewarded far more often than actual contribution, turning the most prestigious moment of the year into a satirical confession.

The Observation: This narrative identifies the "Visibility over Value" trap prevalent in modern office cultures.

At Kaapi with Ravi, we observe that the most prestigious awards often go to the best storytellers, not the best doers. This post serves as a high-intent spoke in our credit stealing cartoons cluster, focusing on the highly visible world of corporate recognition.

It highlights how the townhall stage can become a theater of the absurd, where a leader can publicly admit to credit-theft and still receive a standing ovation from the very people he overshadowed.

 The "Employee of the Year" trophy is just a heavy, gold-plated reminder that you should have BCC’d yourself on those project emails.

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• Series: Credit Stealing Cartoons 

  
  

• Theme: Office Politics Cartoons