How Harry Showed Up

Jeff Thompson spent four decades navigating the realities of the oil industry. After a career’s worth of HR-approved jargon, “synergy” workshops, and meetings that — logically speaking — should have been three-sentence emails, he learned to take the corporate script with a grain of salt.

Over time Jeff noticed something about the best workplace humor.

It usually isn’t loud.

It’s the quiet observation shared between two people who both know the “urgent priority” might not be quite as urgent as advertised.

That voice — the one that develops after enough meetings, enough emails, and enough small disasters both at work and at home — eventually became what we call Harry.

Around here we sometimes refer to him as Old Harry.

It's not a chronological thing.   It's a 'seen-it-all-twice-thing.

Most people eventually develop a little Old Harry.

Wordplay Wearables started with those observations.

 

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Why These Shirts Exist

We’re not here to be your “wacky” t-shirt shop.

We’re here because adulthood often involves a surprising number of polite nods.

Whether it’s a calendar full of “touch-base” invites or the general effort required to keep the wheels on the wagon, life has plenty of moments that deserve a dry, sarcastic footnote.

Our designs are for the person who:

• appreciates a joke that doesn’t try too hard

• prefers a clean typeface to a loud graphic

• knows that “per my last email” is a polite declaration of war

We don’t do “cute.”

We do dry, blunt, and quietly cynical.

If you’ve ever looked at a worthless spreadsheet and felt a small piece of your soul leave your body, you’re in the right place.

Wordplay Wearables simply puts those observations on cotton.

If one of these shirts makes you nod and say “yes… exactly,” then it’s doing its job.