A Week In Corporate Life

Four hundred people on a Zoom.

The CEO reads slides word for word for 25 minutes. Someone asks a tough question in the chat.

It gets ignored. HR shares a “pulse survey” that will also get ignored. You’re told the company is “in a strong position” which is exactly what they said three weeks before the last round of layoffs.

One day later…

You stepped away for 11 minutes and you have 47 unread messages across 9 channels.

Three of them are just people tagging you to “loop you in.” Into what? Nobody knows.

But if your green dot goes yellow for more than 6 minutes, your manager assumes you’ve died or quit.

And then on Friday during your annual review…

You’re about to sit across from someone who manages 14 people and remembers maybe three things you did this year, two of which were actually done by your teammate.

You’ll get rated “meets expectations” which is corporate for “we acknowledge you exist.”

Then they’ll ask about your “growth areas” and you’ll pretend you want to get better at cross-functional communication when what you actually want is to never hear the phrase “cross-functional” again.

Hope this made you smile.

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- j - 🤓🙏🏼