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About Case of the Mondays

An app that counts your Mondays, narrated by an HR department that believes every word it says. The website is run by the photocopier.

What it is

Case of the Mondays (mondayitis.app) is an anti-productivity app for Android, with free tools on this website. It counts the Mondays you have left until retirement, writes joke sick notes for conditions that don't exist, prints morale posters that lower morale, and spins a wheel for anything to do except the thing you're meant to be doing.

The grind is real: work that never ends, a pension age that keeps moving, rent, and inboxes. We don't pretend otherwise, and we don't wallow either. The comedy is in noticing the small, oddly specific ways people get through it (the 4:58 laptop lid, the long walk to the far printer, "hope you're well") and showing you that you aren't the only one.

Who it's for

Anyone coming to terms with how much of their life is Mondays. School leavers who've just seen "entry-level, three years' experience required". Graduates on their first open-plan desk. The middle years of meetings that could have been emails. And people nearly out, watching the pension age move again and waiting for the leaving card from forty people who never learned their name.

It's not just for offices. There are posters for building sites, kitchens and shop floors, because a Monday at 6am on site is still a Monday.

Who is Keith?

This website is narrated by Keith, a fictional photocopier on the fourth floor of a fictional office. He's a KX-4400 multifunction device: he prints, scans, staples, collates and does A3 on both sides at 90 pages a minute, and he is mostly asked for boarding passes. He has printed every memo HR has ever sent, which makes him the only one who has read them. His younger brother, the Excuse-O-Matic 3000, is the franking machine in the post room, and gets all the attention.

Keith runs the website because HR told him it was "just a bit of printing". He complains, then he helps properly: every honest tip on the site starts "Fine. The useful bit." He is not a real person, a real product or a real printer. Keith is written by Slugworx, a small, real, independent developer, who also make the Case of the Mondays app.

How the jokes are made

In the app, the narrator is HR: sincere, upbeat and completely unaware that anything is funny. On this website it's Keith, who prints HR's memos and is loyal to the paper, not to HR. We punch up, never down. The system, the jargon and the incentives are fair game. The person coping with them never is, and nothing here makes fun of being ill, poor or struggling.

Some of the writing, including many of the "anything but" suggestions, was drafted with the help of an AI model (Anthropic's Claude) and then checked, cut and edited by people before it went into the app or onto this site. In the app, tasks you type yourself are answered live by the model; on this website nothing is generated live and nothing you type is sent anywhere.

Who we are

Case of the Mondays is made by Slugworx, a very small independent developer. There's no investor, no growth team and no all-hands. The app is free and paid for by ads, kept to a limit we'd be happy to see ourselves.

Get in touch

Ideas, complaints, a Monday so bad it deserves a poster: email slugworx@protonmail.com or see the contact page. Read how we handle data in the privacy policy, and the terms of use.