Let's start with the general attitude of the corporate workplace. Instead of expressing understanding and applying actual experience to their business, these people try to reduce everything down to numbers and then get surprised when people don't respond well to being treated like a number. "But our data shows that people love this", yet they don't understand that they're misreading their own data. These are the same jackasses who will spend the day standing on a fucking 50hz vibrating pad and call it 'exercise', then wonder why they're still disgusting, out of shape lumps.
Then there's the manipulation aspect of it. No matter how much work you do, they always find a way to say you're not doing enough. When I used to overwork myself, I had relatives who were concerned about me telling me I need to work less. At the time, I panicked and told them that when you get a job based on "exemplary performance", you can't just reduce what you're doing. Corporations expect endless performance improvements, after all. If you start just doing only what you're paid to do, you're told you're not doing enough, and this is always what's happened to me.
If you thought your fellow co-workers would be better, then you thought wrong. When a workplace becomes corporate, it's like all the life gets sucked out of the employees and they take their frustration out on each other. They get over-worked and instead of asking you for help, some of them go straight to the CEO and complain about their co-workers not doing enough. The worst part about this is when they get a promotion after bitching about you and start slapping their name on documents you wrote up after adding a few sentences in broken English. But you know, when it's the CEO who tells you this and they have a history of being manipulative with employees and causing their own high turnover rate, who knows if this is even true!
But let's talk about the meetings now. Don't you dare stop smiling in any of the meetings and don't stop doing phony laughs at their lame ass jokes. They'll talk shit about you and label you as being the problem with company morale. Long, boring, unproductive meetings where everyone is zoning out as someone drones on, repeating the same talking points one, two, three... four times...
You want time off? Fuck you! Don't you dare take Christmas off for the first time in 7 years to see your family for once. You know, it doesn't matter if you've worked every holiday season so the jackasses you work with can see their families. No, you take that one Christmas off and they'll act like you're being egregious with your time off.
Don't mention anything about your health declining, either. It won't matter how much you tell them, it's never enough and the paranoid pricks will start thinking you must be being "guided by something" and up to no good when you were in the hospital and had been communicating this the entire time with them. You can literally show the chats where you said all of this to them and they'll just say they don't remember that. How about scrolling up, dipshit?
Then, when they're ready to fire you, they think they're so sneaky about it. They hire the obvious replacements, ask you to train them, and then ask you to start writing documentation on everything you do. Certain co-workers will start distancing themselves from you and your performance review won't be done, either. Gee, I wonder what could possibly be going on!
But my real issue with corporate life is that in the corporate world, they're always right and you're always the problem. You're the problem for not smiling enough, you're the problem for taking time they give you off, you're the problem for not doing things that hurt others, and you're the problem for just being you.
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