Outsmart Your Toxic Boss™ is a workplace culture brand that helps professionals recognize the tactics behind workplace politics and helps business owners close the operational gaps those tactics run on. Its flagship product is The Corporate Menace™, a satirical card game that personifies widely recognized workplace dysfunction tactics as archetypes: Gaslighting Gabe, Catastrophizing Caleb, Mansplaining Miles, Microaggression Martha, Tattle-tale Tim, Forgetful Francine, Sabotaging Sally, Eavesdropping Evan, Miserable Meryl, and Instigating Ian. The game is available for pre-order now. The brand also offers workshops and consulting for organizations, and publishes The Menace Memo, a weekly newsletter. Take the free quiz to name the tactic you are dealing with.
Outsmart Your Toxic Boss™
Which toxic boss do you work for?
Their signature tactics, personified. Take the quiz to see which one you're dealing with.
Created by someone who actually outsmarted one. Her story →
Free • 7 questions • Unnervingly accurate
The Lineup
Their tactics have names.
Recognize any of them?
You've reported to at least one. You might be emailing one right now.
- No. 01
Gaslighting Gabe
“I think you’re misremembering.”
- No. 02
Catastrophizing Caleb
“Quick call? It’s urgent.”
- No. 03
Mansplaining Miles
“Well, actually...”
- No. 04
Microaggression Martha
“You’re so articulate!”
- No. 05
Tattle-tale Tim
“Just so you’re aware...”
- No. 06
Forgetful Francine
“I don’t recall approving that.”
- No. 07
Sabotaging Sally
“Happy to help!”
- No. 08
Eavesdropping Evan
“Couldn’t help but overhear...”
- No. 09
Miserable Meryl
“We tried that in 2009.”
- No. 10
Instigating Ian
“Don’t tell them I told you...”
Outsmarting them is what makes you a Corporate Menace™.
The Storefront
Embrace your professional alter ego.
Too competent to play their games. Too sharp not to see them. For the high performers done watching mediocrity win on politics. Signal your standards and let other like-minded Menaces find you in the wild.
Featured Products
You're here because you've seen shady office politics up close, and you noticed everything.
The credit-stealing. The public "reminder" that didn't need the audience made of your peers. The feedback that shows up the week after you asked a hard question.
These are tactics. And once you can laugh at them, that's when they lose their grip on you.
The Corporate Menace™ gives you the hand you wish you played at work.
The Incident. What happened.
Menace Moves. What you do about it.
Leverage. What you earn for playing it well, awarded by HR each round. No appeals, no committee, just whoever made HR laugh hardest.
250 cards. 4 to 6 players.
Images are AI-generated mockups. Final artwork and packaging are being hand-drawn by our illustrator and packaging specialist.
The Brand
It's not a people problem.
It's a design problem.
Outsmart Your Toxic Boss™ helps professionals spot workplace tactics early, and helps business owners redesign the operations that let them run. The card game starts the conversation, the workshops train the room, and the consulting redesigns how the business runs. Humor is how it lands: laughing at the predictability creates distance, and distance is how you stop taking it personally and keep going. Awareness is the promise.
Our First Release
The Corporate
Menace™
The card game with the hand you wish you'd played at work.
HR reads an Incident card, the kind of stunt a toxic boss actually pulls. Everyone claps back with their pettiest, HR-approved revenge. Then HR decides whose Menace Move had the most iconic audacity and awards them Leverage. No appeals, no committee, just whoever made HR laugh hardest.
Fast, petty, and deeply satisfying.
“It feels empowering to be right and petty at the same time.”
Playtester, Tech
“Cards Against Humanity, but corporate. And the corporate flavor is fun.”
R.E., Finance
“A fun way to get back at a toxic boss. We had everyone laughing.”
R.C., 20+ Years in Retail
From the 35 playtesters behind 5 prototypes, 7 rewrites, and over a year of development.
Pre-Order The Corporate Menace™ →The Founder
This brand was never just about my story. It was created so you can own your narrative too.
Raissa Silva outsmarted a toxic boss, then spent a year studying the tactics so you could see them coming faster than she did.
Meet Raissa →The Newsletter
The Menace Memo
One tactic. One design flaw. One countermove. One fix.
Every week, from Outsmart Your Toxic Boss™.
Please enter a valid email address.
One more step: confirm your email in your inbox, and you're on the list.
No spam. Unsubscribe any time.
Still scrolling?
You made it this far, which means someone has already come to mind.
Take the Quiz →