PhDoug is a workplace satire comic about a manager who already understands the AI, the bot that replaced IT, and the lunch that refuses to end.https://phdoug.com/en-ushttps://phdoug.com/strip/the-replacement/https://phdoug.com/strip/the-replacement/Barb: Meet the new IT. Chip: I am Chip Lang. PhDoug: All twelve of them? Steve: Reset my password? Chip: New one: password. PhDoug: He mailed the building. Sherry L: The humans said sorry. Chip:…Fri, 30 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p><img src="https://phdoug.com/og/the-replacement.png" alt="Three panels. Barb introduces Chip Lang, a bot with a screen face and an antenna, as the new IT department. PhDoug asks if Chip replaced all twelve people. Steve asks for a password reset. Chip sets the new password to password, and PhDoug says Chip mailed it to the building. Sherry L says the humans used to apologize. Chip says sorry is automated. PhDoug says Chip is extremely confident." /></p><p>Barb: Meet the new IT.</p><p>Chip: I am Chip Lang.</p><p>PhDoug: All twelve of them?</p><p>Steve: Reset my password?</p><p>Chip: New one: password.</p><p>PhDoug: He mailed the building.</p><p>Sherry L: The humans said sorry.</p><p>Chip: Sorry is automated.</p><p>PhDoug: Extremely confident.</p><p><a href="https://phdoug.com/strip/the-replacement/">Read on PhDoug</a></p>https://phdoug.com/strip/after-lunch/https://phdoug.com/strip/after-lunch/Barb: Install the AI tool. Steve: After lunch. Sherry L: It ships broken. Barb: Lunch ended at noon. Steve: Still on the first one. Sherry L: The vendor sunset it at one. Barb: Install whatever…Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p><img src="https://phdoug.com/og/after-lunch.png" alt="Three panels. Barb tells Steve and Sherry L to install a mandatory AI tool. Steve says he will do it after lunch. Sherry L says it ships broken. Barb says lunch ended at noon. Steve is still on the first lunch. Sherry L says the vendor sunset the tool at one. Barb says to install whatever replaced it. Steve says after this lunch. Sherry L says they replaced the replacement." /></p><p>Barb: Install the AI tool.</p><p>Steve: After lunch.</p><p>Sherry L: It ships broken.</p><p>Barb: Lunch ended at noon.</p><p>Steve: Still on the first one.</p><p>Sherry L: The vendor sunset it at one.</p><p>Barb: Install whatever replaced it.</p><p>Steve: After this lunch.</p><p>Sherry L: They replaced the replacement.</p><p><a href="https://phdoug.com/strip/after-lunch/">Read on PhDoug</a></p>https://phdoug.com/strip/the-workshop/https://phdoug.com/strip/the-workshop/Barb: We aligned on an AI workflow. PhDoug: Did anyone write it down? Steve: I had it next. Barb: A workshop will assign it. PhDoug: Blockers? Barb: A workshop will find them. Sherry L: Found them.…Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p><img src="https://phdoug.com/og/the-workshop.png" alt="Three panels. Barb says the group aligned on an AI workflow. PhDoug asks if anyone wrote it down. Steve says he had it next. Barb says a workshop will assign it. PhDoug asks about blockers. Barb says a workshop will find them. Sherry L says she found them: this meeting." /></p><p>Barb: We aligned on an AI workflow.</p><p>PhDoug: Did anyone write it down?</p><p>Steve: I had it next.</p><p>Barb: A workshop will assign it.</p><p>PhDoug: Blockers?</p><p>Barb: A workshop will find them.</p><p>Sherry L: Found them. This meeting.</p><p><a href="https://phdoug.com/strip/the-workshop/">Read on PhDoug</a></p>https://phdoug.com/strip/badge-data/https://phdoug.com/strip/badge-data/Barb: Three days. In the building. Steve: After lunch. Sherry L: The reader is down. Steve: Badged in to call everyone who didn't. PhDoug: Swipes are up forty percent. Barb: I told the model to…Fri, 09 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p><img src="https://phdoug.com/og/badge-data.png" alt="Three panels. Barb tells Steve and Sherry L that three days in the building is the rule. Steve says after lunch. Sherry L says the badge reader is down. Alone at a laptop, Steve says he badged in to call everyone who didn't. PhDoug says swipes are up forty percent. Barb says she told the model to count. Sherry L says it counted the wish." /></p><p>Barb: Three days. In the building.</p><p>Steve: After lunch.</p><p>Sherry L: The reader is down.</p><p>Steve: Badged in to call everyone who didn't.</p><p>PhDoug: Swipes are up forty percent.</p><p>Barb: I told the model to count.</p><p>Sherry L: It counted the wish.</p><p><a href="https://phdoug.com/strip/badge-data/">Read on PhDoug</a></p>https://phdoug.com/strip/the-pilot/https://phdoug.com/strip/the-pilot/Chip: System down. Chip: Office empty. PhDoug: Have you tried off and on? Chip: Off and on myself? Chip: Reboot complete. Sherry L: The outage is back too. PhDoug: Quieter when you were off.Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT<p><img src="https://phdoug.com/og/the-pilot.png" alt="Three panels. Chip, a bot with a screen face and an antenna, stands alone in an empty office beside two vacant chairs and a monitor that reads DOWN. He says the system is down and the office is empty. On a video call labeled Remote IT, PhDoug asks if Chip has tried turning himself off and on. Chip asks if that means himself. In the last panel Chip says the reboot is complete, Sherry L says the outage is back too, and PhDoug says it was quieter when Chip was off." /></p><p>Chip: System down.</p><p>Chip: Office empty.</p><p>PhDoug: Have you tried off and on?</p><p>Chip: Off and on myself?</p><p>Chip: Reboot complete.</p><p>Sherry L: The outage is back too.</p><p>PhDoug: Quieter when you were off.</p><p><a href="https://phdoug.com/strip/the-pilot/">Read on PhDoug</a></p>