# The org chart of a job nobody has explained to him > A wordless flowchart of a computer, a mug, a telephone and a chair, connected with total confidence in an order that means absolutely nothing. August 20, 2026 · https://justog.club/stories/what-they-think-you-do-at-work Four rectangles in a formal grid, joined by clean straight lines — the kind of chart a company pins to a wall. Inside them: a computer, a mug, a telephone, a chair. The connections are drawn with total confidence. The order means nothing. Ask a five-year-old what you do all day and this is roughly what comes back — an org chart with the wrong organisation in it. ## Why draw this as a corporate diagram instead of a child's drawing? Because the seriousness of the format is the joke, and it only works if the format is played straight. A wobbly crayon sketch of "Mummy at work" reads as cute and stays there. Redraw the same wrong information in the clean single-weight line of a company org chart — the kind that hangs in a corridor and nobody reads twice — and the mismatch between the confident format and the nonsense content is what actually lands. The seriousness has to be real, not a wink at the reader, or the whole thing collapses into a joke about being little instead of a joke about the diagram. ## Why does the wrong order actually matter to the design? Because it's the most accurate part of the whole thing — it's what limited information looks like once it gets presented with full confidence anyway. He has seen a computer, a mug, a telephone and a chair, in no particular sequence, and has never seen how they actually relate. So he's connected them the only way he knows how to connect things: in a row, with lines, the same certainty behind [rules an imaginary friend enforces and never explains](/stories/the-imaginary-friend-had-rules) — a structure imposed with total conviction over information that was never really there. ## What's the specific choice that makes a design like this work? Keeping it wordless. Objects a child has actually seen — a mug, a phone, a chair — read instantly to a stranger; a label explaining "this represents email" would kill it, because the accuracy of the guess is supposed to be inferred from the picture, not narrated. A completely pictorial chart is also legible to someone who has never sat in that particular office, which a diagram full of job titles wouldn't be. ## Does turning your job into a diagram like this need anyone's permission? No — there's no real company template or logo being borrowed here, so there's nothing to clear. This isn't your employer's actual org chart with the names swapped out; it's an invented diagram grammar — plain boxes, plain lines — applied to four everyday objects a child picked out himself. The box-and-connector style belongs to no one in particular, the same way [the size a child gives a figure in a drawing comes from how they saw it, not from a template](/stories/everyone-drawn-the-same-height). Nothing here reproduces a real company's actual materials, so there's nothing to license. ## Who is a design like this actually for? Usually not the child who drew it — it's for the adult on the other end of the guess. This sits closer to a gift than a memento: the parent whose job got reduced to a mug and a phone is the one who'll recognise exactly how wrong, and how oddly close, the guess is. It lands differently from a shirt that just states "world's best dad" or similar, because it isn't a claim anyone chose — it's evidence, assembled by somebody with no stake in flattering the answer. ## Isn't this just laughing at what he doesn't understand? No — it's admiring how much got inferred from almost nothing. He wasn't given an explanation of the job and asked to repeat it back; he built a theory out of a handful of observed objects and presented it with total conviction, the same confidence behind [a first joke that gets the structure right before it has any real content](/stories/the-first-joke-they-made). Getting it wrong isn't the failure here — building any structure at all, out of that little evidence, is the achievement being printed. ## How does a diagram like this actually hold up on fabric? Well, provided the line stays a single weight throughout. A clean single-weight outline reproduces cleanly at any size and survives the fabric's weave far better than a shaded or gradient-filled version, which would go soft and lose the "printed office document" read that makes the joke work. Cream or white line on a dark, plain ground — navy, bottle green, charcoal — keeps every connector legible without needing more than one ink. ## How do I get one made? Describe the objects at [JustOG](/) — which four, and the order he actually connected them in. Pick a direction, drag the crop frame, see it composited on the real garment, and it's made to order and shipped. Designs other people have published are in the [shop](/shop). Nobody in the diagram is doing anything. All four boxes are just connected, with confidence, to nothing.