The first call starts at nine, and one attendee is already in position: flat across the keyboard, eyes half shut, tail over the trackpad. Nobody sent the invite. Nobody ever does.
The artwork is the profile card that makes the arrangement official. A wide round avatar holds one flat cat face, drawn in clean vector shapes with thick even outlines, pointed ears and the calm of an animal that has never once been asked to present. A presence dot sits on the rim, because it is never marked away. CHIEF NAP OFFICER runs beside it at full title weight, and beneath the header two rows give the whole biography: SLEEPS ON THE KEYBOARD, then JOINS EVERY CALL UNINVITED. No app, no logo, nothing borrowed from anyone's workspace.
Soft and cozy with a hood, for the cold mornings when the only warm spot in the office is already taken.
It goes to the coworker whose cat is a recurring character in every meeting, the partner who shares a desk with an animal and loses, or the cat owner who stopped pretending years ago about who runs the house. Bought for yourself first, then for whoever laughs at it fastest.
The role was never open.
