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HR Violation Cards
The Instigator Program

Design a card. We print it. You get paid.

You know a joke too far. You've been sitting on it for years. Give it to us and we'll put it on 300gsm card stock with your name on the back.

  1. Design it

    Sweet on the front, unforgivable on the inside. That's the house formula: the front should be framable, the inside should end a relationship.

  2. Submit it

    Use the form below. It goes straight to our editors, who are two people and a lawyer on retainer.

  3. The crowd votes

    Accepted designs go on the voting board. Every month, the top three go to print at $19.99 like everything else.

  4. You get paid

    $1 for every copy sold after the first 25, for as long as your card is in the catalog. The first 25 cover print setup, the plain envelopes, and our therapy.

The payout plan

The math, in public.

Copies of your card soldYou earn
25$0 — setup covered, congrats on existing
100$75
500$475
1,000$975
10,000$9,975 — and we frame your cease-and-desist next to ours
Submit your design

Do your worst.

Submitting opens an email to create@hrviolationcards.com with your design filled in. By sending it you confirm it's yours and you've read the rules above.

Satire disclaimer, please actually read this

These cards are satire, and extreme satire at that. They are jokes, written to be as outrageous as possible, and they are not statements of fact about any person, boss, professor, teacher, coworker, clergy member, or company. Nothing on a card describes a real event, and no card is directed at any real individual.

To be completely clear: workplace harassment, abuse of power, and quid pro quo demands are real problems and we do not endorse, encourage, or make light of actual misconduct. The joke is the absurdity of saying the unsayable in a glitter-adjacent greeting card, not the misconduct itself.

Cards contain adult language and themes. Intended for buyers 18 and older who know their audience. If you hand one of these to someone with no sense of humor, HR, or your grandmother, that outcome is entirely on you.