I Did Not Write It. I Still Own It: Software Engineer Tee

The current working condition of the job. Code arrives already written. You review it, you ship it, your name is on it, and you are the one who gets the call at three in the morning about it. Authorship and responsibility have come apart, and only one of them followed the work.

From outside it sounds like ghostwriting, or an inheritance. A memoir with somebody else's name on the cover, a family business handed down, a song credit, a property. The reader lands on a legal or a creative arrangement, stays confident, and finds it slightly intriguing.

Filed as an OWNERSHIP RECORD plate with ESCALATION POINT UNCHANGED beneath. Two sentences, equal weight, full stops kept, because the joke is that both halves are equally true.

What it is

• Unisex softstyle tee, 4.5 oz/yd² (153 g/m²)
• 100% ring-spun cotton in the solid colors. Sport Grey is a 90% cotton, 10% polyester blend, and Dark Heather is 65% polyester, 35% cotton
• Double stitched neckline and sleeves, side seamed, tear away label
• Sizes S through 3XL
• Fourteen colors. Seven light ones printed in near black ink, seven dark ones printed in cream

Where it comes from

Custom printed in the USA. Every shirt is printed here, one at a time, on a soft cotton blank woven overseas.

Nothing is printed until you order it, so nothing sits in a warehouse and nothing gets thrown away.

Getting it to you

Free US shipping on orders $45 and up. Under that it is a flat $8.00. We make it after you order it, which takes 2 to 5 business days, and it then takes 3 to 4 business days to reach you from a US facility. Most orders arrive in 5 to 9 business days. You get a tracking number by email as soon as the label is created.

Care

Machine wash cold, inside out, gentle cycle. Tumble dry low or hang dry. Do not iron the print.

The Natural colorway

Natural has small dark speckles through the fabric. That is the undyed cotton showing, and it is expected rather than a fault.