The Rise and Fall of a Fake Office on Facebook

TLDR A teenager creates a Facebook group pretending to be an office, which quickly becomes popular but eventually spirals out of control with jokes that break the creator's rules. The fake office is ultimately taken over by someone else, leading to the firing of the original creator and the teenagers involved.

Timestamped Summary

00:00 A teenage boy creates a Facebook group for people to pretend they work in an office together, complete with job titles and departments, and it quickly becomes a fully functioning company.
03:10 A Facebook group pretending to be an office has posts that mimic real office communication and even includes fake fun activities.
06:03 Thomas creates a fake office called Stax Willing Co. and hires a friend to manage it, but after leaving for vacation, he returns to find that the fake office has become extremely popular.
08:58 Stax Will, the fake office, quickly gained a large number of users from around the world, but the jokes being made about the office were starting to break Thomas' rules and were no longer funny to him.
11:52 Thomas becomes furious when the jokes being made about the fake office turn it into a casual and idiotic joke, leading him to ban anyone who posts about Aguana's and ultimately deciding that everyone should be fired.
14:45 Thomas becomes furious and threatens to shut down Staxwell & Co, but David proposes a buyout and takes over as CEO, firing Thomas and the teenagers from the group.
17:58 Thomas is a teenager who believes that adult life is terrible and that his view of it is accurate, while the hosts of the podcast try to convince him that it's not as bad as he thinks.

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