Office Laptop: The Classified Alternate User Manual

Some manuals teach you how to use a product.

This one quietly suggests you’ve been using it wrong.

Office Laptop: The Classified Alternate User Manual is a 24-page illustrated zine that documents the real uses of your work laptop — the ones discovered during long meetings, longer deadlines, and suspiciously short attention spans.

From dumbbells to chopping boards, from hand drums to sandwich makers, each page reimagines your laptop as something far more productive than… work.

Written in deadpan, manual-like language and paired with bold, comic-style visuals, this is less of a guide and more of a field report from the modern workplace.

What’s inside:

• 13 alternate use cases for your office laptop
• One-line “instructions” that sound official but feel illegal
• Handwritten annotations that make things worse (or better)
• Visuals that look like they belong in a manual, but definitely don’t
• The quiet satisfaction of knowing you’re not alone

Format & Specs:

• Size: A5 (easy to hide under your actual laptop)
• Pages: 24 (including cover)
• Cover: 220 GSM (strong enough to judge you)
• Inner Pages: 170 GSM (smooth, durable, meeting-resistant)

Ideal for:

• Anyone currently in a meeting that could’ve been a message
• Gifting to coworkers you like (or understand too well)
• Keeping on your desk as a reminder that there are… options

Disclaimer:

Distribution of this manual may be frowned upon by management. Reading it during work hours is strongly encouraged.

Please note:

1. We accept returns ONLY in cases of manufacturing defects.
2. There is a delivery charge for orders below INR 500.