Welcome to the Underworld's Worst Department.

Carl Percival was just another soul-crushed middle manager at a beige, soul-sucking corporate job—until a rogue stapler ended his earthly existence and sent him straight to the one place worse than the 9-to-5 grind: Hell. More specifically, Hell's Human Resources Department.

Now Carl's stuck navigating the infernal bureaucracy of the afterlife, where sentient filing cabinets groan with the weight of misplaced souls, demonic interns fuel themselves with brimstone espresso, and "Fun Fridays" involve competitive scorpion racing. Between onboarding the eternally damned and mediating HR disputes between archdemons over parking spaces, Carl must learn to survive office politics that make Earth's look like a daycare.

But when a soul-siphoning tech startup threatens to upend the balance between Heaven, Hell, and LinkedIn, Carl might be the only one capable—or desperate—enough to save the underworld's most dysfunctional department.

Reed Mallory's Human Resources from Hell is a razor-sharp, darkly hilarious satire for anyone who's ever suffered through a team-building seminar and wondered if damnation was just another meeting away.