now there are posters for failure, mediocrity, apathy, burnout, and other grim workplace realities. The brothers Sewell and coworker Kersten saw to it by pooling their severance bucks to launch Despair, Inc."It sounds hokey, but we really came out of our prior jobs with a newfound appreciation for just how critical it is to keep your word," Sewell says. "Despair would not exist if so many things had not gone so wrong, most of them involving promises being broken.