Boardroom Meeting Suggestion
Origin
The Boardroom Meeting Suggestion template comes from a comic strip depicting an executive soliciting ideas from employees around a conference table, with the final panel showing one worker being hurled out of a high-rise window. It became a popular multi-panel exploitable around 2015, with the blank speech bubbles making it easy to fill in custom text. The four-panel layout gives a natural rhythm of setup, setup, punchline, and consequence. It spread across Reddit and image boards as a template for satire.
Meaning & usage
A boss asks ‘how can we improve X?’ — two employees give normal, reasonable answers, and then a third offers a brutally honest or absurd suggestion that gets the speaker thrown out the window. The format is ideal for satirizing corporate, political, or institutional denial, where the obvious truth is the one thing nobody is allowed to say. The defenestration stands in for how organizations punish inconvenient honesty. It works for any ‘the real answer is unacceptable here’ joke.
Notable examples
- Corporate satire where the fired suggestion is simply to pay people more.
- Political and social commentary about ignoring obvious solutions.
- Self-referential jokes where the third answer breaks the format itself.
Examples & gallery
Frequently asked
What is the Boardroom Meeting meme?
It is a multi-panel template where a boss asks for ideas and the person who gives a blunt or absurd answer is thrown out a window.
Where did it come from?
It is based on a comic strip of an executive soliciting suggestions, and became a popular format around 2015.
What is it used for?
It satirizes corporate or institutional denial, where an obvious or honest answer gets 'punished.'
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