Meet Cliff

Employee #0001 | Department: Existential Operations

Who Is Cliff

Cliff is the embodiment of modern corporate existence, a stick-figure caught between deadlines and despair, clinging to sanity through dry humor and routine repetition.

He isn't ambitious. He isn't rebellious. He simply exists, clocking in and out of the same existential loop that everyone else pretends is progress.

He's the human screensaver of the modern workforce. Endlessly looping, quietly enduring, occasionally glitching.

Profile

  • Name: Cliff (short for Clifford, though no one calls him that… or do they even know that?)
  • Occupation: Mid-level employee in an unnamed, featureless corporation that could be any company on Earth.
  • Core Trait: Cope through indifference.
  • Philosophy: "Just make it to the Exit Interview."
  • Visual Identity: Expressionless, posture perpetually neutral, a deliberate lack of emotion that mirrors how most office workers feel but can't show.

What He Represents

Cliff embodies the quiet resignation of the working class. Not tragedy, just shared cope dressed as humor.

  • The unacknowledged mascot of corporate burnout.
  • The personification of "just make it to 5 O'Clock."
  • The invisible backbone of capitalism who knows it's all absurd, but still fills out the TPS reports.

The Cliffverse

The Cliffverse isn't a story. It's a schedule.
Each loop begins at 9:00 a.m. and ends somewhere between exhaustion and déjà vu.

Same desk, same meetings, same plastic smiles — Same circus, different clowns.

Every design, product, or comic panel is another entry in the endless report of working life.

Familiar constants:

  • HR: the corporate "conscience" (ironically), powered by guilt and PowerPoints.
  • Management: the motivational speakers of nothing.
  • Coworkers: ghostly presences that exist only to reply-all.

Cliff doesn't live in the Cliffverse, he endures it.
He's the cursor blinking at the edge of meaning, quietly waiting for someone to type something worth reading.

Core Truth

Time moves. Nothing changes.
The weekend is a temporary myth.
The coffee cools before it's finished.

And yet, everyone shows up again on Monday.
That's not hope. It's habit.
And in the Cliffverse, habit is the unholy ritual.

Philosophy of Survival

The Cliffverse runs on three truths:

  1. Absurdity is the default state of modern work.
  2. Survival requires humor, not hope.
  3. Meaning doesn't need to be found. It can be quietly mocked.

Cliff doesn't dream of escape. He's past that.
He just observes the chaos with mild interest. A corporate Sisyphus who's made peace with the boulder.

Cubicle CULTure presents: The Cliffverse.
A tribute to everyone still pretending their status light is green.