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Teenagers Create a Fake Company. It Gets Taken Over And They Are All Fired.
A true story.
He is a once and former CEO.
His name is Thomas Oscar.
He was a 17-year-old high school senior in Australia, who spent his free time hanging with friends and playing in a punk rock band.
When he was bored, he created Facebook groups. He intentionally made the most boring ones he could think of, including “diehard mushroom foragers”.
His friends would then join and they’d roleplay as legit members of the group. So he decided, “Why not a group where we roleplay a corporate office.”
Thomas created a fake company, Stackswell & Co. The name was a play on words of corporate jargon.
It was inspired by Thomas’s parents who had office jobs. He often sat at the dinner table, dying inside as they talked about office culture. It sounded totally soul-crushing, with constant “circle backs” and talk of synergy and touch bases, and pretending to like insufferable people.
Stackswell & Co referred to its business model as “shifting units”, which is slang for selling drugs. There were no actual drugs. It was all nonsense.
