I’m especially keen to know how you can describe this as “Kafkaesque”.

Is your coworker sending you photographs of his cockroach carapace? Is his family keeping him locked in his room? Is he only able to communicate via gesticulations of antennae and disturbing screeches?

What an interesting case. Perhaps if we work hard enough, we can collectively blame the Trump administration for a dramatic uptick in Kafkaesque cockroach metamorphoses, worldwide!