--- title: (comic) Presentation Hell | daily.dev description: A workplace comic depicting the misery and awkwardness of giving presentations at the office, part of an ongoing series of work-related comics. canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/comic-presentation-hell-rknnskgrk twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: (comic) Presentation Hell | daily.dev og:description: A workplace comic depicting the misery and awkwardness of giving presentations at the office, part of an ongoing series of work-related comics. og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/comic-presentation-hell-rknnskgrk og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/rkNNSKgRk.png og:image:alt: (comic) Presentation Hell og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # (comic) Presentation Hell **[Work Chronicles](https://daily.dev/sources/workchronicles)** · 1 min read · 33 upvotes · 3 comments ## Summary A workplace comic depicting the misery and awkwardness of giving presentations at the office, part of an ongoing series of work-related comics. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@petermrozek** · 6 upvotes > The more text you put on the slides, the less you'll be listened to. People's attention will be on reading the text. I always wondered why is this so hard to understand. > > Slides were supposed to be visual aids, not your whole presentation word-for-word in written form. If you're stuffing the whole text in there, just send me the slides and let's not have a meeting - I'll read it myself in peace. **@geovanisouza92** · 1 upvotes > That's the most odious thing to do **@jephyda1st** · 1 upvotes > Send it on an email ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [\(comic\) Welcome to Hell](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-welcome-to-hell-4wv4ffrep) · Work Chronicles · 45 upvotes · 5 comments - [\(comic\) Deep work](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-deep-work-s0vqci0lx) · Work Chronicles · 35 upvotes · 3 comments - [\(comic\) Highly unprofessional](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-highly-unprofessional-l4satjsop) · Work Chronicles · 28 upvotes · 0 comments - [\(comic\) Unprofessional behavior](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-unprofessional-behavior-dtar3ibo8) · Work Chronicles · 23 upvotes · 0 comments - [\(comic\) When half-truths become full presentations](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-when-half-truths-become-full-presentations-qbemdqye5) · Work Chronicles · 28 upvotes · 3 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/comic-presentation-hell-rknnskgrk) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"(comic) Presentation Hell","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/comic-presentation-hell-rknnskgrk","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/comic-presentation-hell-rknnskgrk"},"datePublished":"2026-09-30T16:21:40.900Z","dateModified":"2026-09-30T16:21:51.555Z","description":"A workplace comic depicting the misery and awkwardness of giving presentations at the office, part of an ongoing series of work-related comics.","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c9847773a1690eb9c029e93386b5e155?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/c9847773a1690eb9c029e93386b5e155?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Work Chronicles","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Work Chronicles","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--V5O-tAlc--/f_auto/v1714799471/logos/workchronicles","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/workchronicles"},"commentCount":3,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/comic-presentation-hell-rknnskgrk","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":33},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":3}],"keywords":"","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Work Chronicles","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/workchronicles"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"(comic) Presentation Hell"}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/comic-presentation-hell-rknnskgrk","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","text":"The more text you put on the slides, the less you’ll be listened to. 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