Boardroom Meeting Suggestion
Where it came from
A four-panel template where a boss asks employees to suggest ideas in a meeting, and one employee's suggestion gets them thrown out a window. Based on a rage-comic style image from the early 2010s.
A boss in a meeting asks his employees for suggestions. Two give reasonable answers. The third gives an answer that's either too honest, too on-the-nose, or just mildly inconvenient — and gets hurled out the window. You label the panels so the final, thrown-out-the-window suggestion is the actual obvious answer that nobody in power wants to hear.
It's the definitive "speaking truth to management gets you fired" format. The first two suggestions are always corporate-safe nonsense, and the third one is always what any reasonable person would actually say. The violence of the defenestration is part of the joke — the reaction is wildly disproportionate, which is the point.
Older meme, still used in corporate-satire contexts. Feels distinctly early-2010s in its construction.
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