Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-35911608-20190815170123/@comment-5733573-20190815174858

Now that I think of it, another option could be to just embrace the title's turn of phrase completely and have it be the office job  itself that caused him to die. If you went that route, I think you would have to really build up a sense of painful drudgery at the beginning. At the moment, it just sort of feels like a normal day, but if it's clear from the very beginning that this guy hates his sucky office job, that could help unify the story.