Decaf Switcheroo — Monday Morning Mutiny

A 9-second 9:16 vertical petty-revenge comedy: LENA swaps the office coffee for decaf and watches the Monday collapse. The scene opens in the bright startup kitchen at 8:55 a.m., Lena smiling too sweetly as she swaps the regular beans for decaf while everyone rides the elevator, the grinder whirring innocently. 0-3s: Cheerful handheld morning energy — coworkers pour mugs, chat brightly, head to standup, the daylight crisp and optimistic, Lena among them, serene. 3-6s: By 9:20 the meeting room is a graveyard: the handheld goes static, the grade desaturating to gray, heads on tables, one developer asleep upright in his chair, the manager presenting quarterly goals to audible snores, a half-eaten donut abandoned. 6-9s: Lena sips her secret real espresso from a thermos, winks directly at the camera, and beside her the office plant visibly droops in solidarity, one leaf flopping. The manager's presentation clicker dies mid-slide, and he taps it against his palm in the grey silence. A developer's head slides slowly off his hand, jerking him awake for one confused second before he slumps again. Subject and craft: Lena with thermos, decaf beans, coworkers, comatose meeting room, snoring developer, drooping office plant, startup kitchen. Camera: cheerful handheld decaying into static desaturated wides. Lighting: bright daylight curdling into gray. Mood: petty revenge comedy. Style: horror-movie pacing for a mundane crime, photorealistic.