The Chicken Manifesto-There Is a Reason the Chicken Crossed the Road

For generations, people have asked:

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Wrong question.

Nobody asked the Chicken. Nobody examined the coop. Nobody counted the eggs, questioned the pecking order, or checked the temperature of the fryer.

The Chicken Manifesto is a pocket guide to flocking survival for every competent worker who was rewarded with more work, every truth-teller who was diagnosed with an attitude, and every employee who discovered that the road was safer than the coop.

Blending workplace satire, fable, philosophy, and a healthy measure of Hen-titude, Monica E. Wall follows one dependable Chicken as she becomes indispensable, inconvenient, and unemployed—in precisely that order.

Inside the coop, competence becomes extraction. Accountability travels downward. Resilience becomes a substitute for repair. Broken systems remain protected, while the Chicken who notices them becomes the problem.

But the Chicken is counting.

She is documenting.

And she has finally answered.

There is a reason the Chicken crossed the road.

There is also a reason the coop never asked.