A-02A-02
2025
Corporate battle-royale
Dystopian satire
180 pp.
3.53 / 5
Avenida Books
₱275
Exhibit A-02 · in evidence
Team Building
The staff of a snack-food giant are flown to a retreat. Only one of them comes back promoted.
Corporate cultureLaborClassAmbition
COLLABORATION. SYNERGY. THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX. The employees of Philippine Nutrition Inc. are sent to an island for a corporate team-building exercise. The actual agenda: kill each other for the promotion. Battle Royale by way of the HR handbook.
Written in restless Taglish, breaking the fourth wall and turning buzzwords into weapons, it makes literal the thing every org chart implies — that climbing the ladder is a body count. A darkly funny autopsy of Filipino corporate culture.
“Makikipagpatayan para sa position.”