Shirts for What You Actually Do All Day: Office, Remote and Trades
Work merch is usually one of two things: a company polo nobody chose, or a mug that says "world's best" something. Neither acknowledges what the job actually feels like.
These do. Every design here is a rat doing a specific job badly enough to be recognisable β split between desk work, working from home, and the trades.
Desk Jobs and Corporate Life
- Corporate Burnout Rat Shirt β the honest one, for the stage where meetings have replaced work entirely.
- Operating on 3% β a rat hugging a nearly-dead battery. The most accurate design in the shop and the most-gifted between coworkers.
- Funny Work Humor Rat Shirt β general-purpose office humour.
- Business Humor Graphic β the broader corporate pick.
- Startup Tee β coat, coffee, and a to-do list that grew since lunch.
Developers and IT
The two most specific designs in the range, and the ones that land hardest with the people they're about.
- Brain.exe Coding Humor Tee β a programmer rat mid-crash. Works for developers and for anyone whose brain has ever stopped responding.
- IT Support Shirt β a panic rat, vintage print, for the person who gets asked to fix the printer.
Working From Home
- Work From Home Shirt β a laptop rat, which is a fair description of remote work: technically at work, physically on the sofa.
Running Your Own Thing
- Entrepreneur Shirt β for the side-hustle stage.
- Small Business Owner Shirt β for the stage after that, when it's a real business and also your entire life.
Trades and Hands-On Work
The genuinely underserved category. Try finding a decent gift for a mechanic that isn't a novelty keyring.
- Mechanic Graphic Tee β under the car, covered in it.
- Chef Shirt β kitchen chaos, properly earned.
- Scattered Smothered Covered & Unhinged Waffle Cook β diner cooks will recognise this immediately; nobody else will.
- Funny Farmer Rat Shirt β vintage harvest print.
For Halloween specifically, the Boo Crew series covers railroad, towing, sanitation, road striping and nursing with matching shirt, mug and tote sets.
The Break-Room Designs
Not job-specific, but they live in the same world:
- Funny Rat Coffee Lover Shirt β a dapper rodent with a coffee and a cookie.
- Rat Snack Shirt β the desk drawer situation.
- Funny Rat Shirt β the general-purpose one that works anywhere.
Buying for a Coworker
Two rules that make this easy:
1. Self-directed beats pointed. "Operating on 3%" works because it's about how the wearer feels, not a comment on anyone. Anything that could read as a dig at a colleague is the wrong call. 2. Specific beats generic. A mechanic design for a mechanic lands ten times harder than a generic "hard worker" shirt, because almost nothing on the market is that specific.
Everything here is clean and workplace-appropriate β nothing crude, nothing that needs explaining to HR.
The Details
Premium unisex tees in Airlume combed and ring-spun cotton, DTG printed in black or white, XS to 5XL, from Β£17.50. Postage is calculated at checkout by destination.
Browse the range β Work & Business designs Β· Jobs & Trades designs
FAQ
What's a good gift for a coworker?
The "Operating on 3%" design is the most reliable β the humour is self-directed, so it reads as solidarity rather than a comment on them. It's also the one most people find genuinely accurate.
Do you have shirts for developers or IT?
Yes β the Brain.exe coding design and the IT Support panic rat are both made for that world specifically.
Are these okay for a casual office?
Yes. The humour is about workload, caffeine and deadlines; there's nothing crude in the range.
Do you have designs for trades?
Mechanics, chefs, diner cooks and farmers are covered here, and the Halloween Boo Crew series adds railroad, towing, sanitation, road striping and nursing.