bosses, coworkers, burnout, the job everyone tells you to be grateful for — say the thing you can’t say on slack.
some stories below are illustrative examples — real rooms are filling in.
I work part-time, so I miss the Monday leadership sync. Guess which coworker makes sure he never misses it. Every good idea I float in our team channel on a Friday somehow becomes …
I've been seeing a therapist for half a year and every single session I told her some version of fine. Work's fine. Sleep's fine. I'm managing. Fine. Today she asked the same quest…
They told me we were expanding the team and brought in someone new for me to train. Great, I thought. More hands. I taught him everything. My shortcuts, my contacts, the workaround…
I had the impressive job. The title people repeated at parties. The one my dad bragged about to his friends. I also cried in the parking garage most mornings before going in. I qui…
There's a guy on my team who barely talks. Heads down, does his work, gone by five. I honestly didn't think he noticed much of anything. This year has been a mess for me personally…
It started as a joke on a stressful day. A typo went out in a client email and my coworker, panicking, blamed it on Dave. There is no Dave. Dave has now worked here for eight month…
There's a guy at work everyone's a little scared of. Gruff, short answers, never small talks, eats lunch alone by choice. The office grump, affectionately and not so affectionately…
My dad was in hospice and I was trying to hold a job together at the same time, which is to say I was failing at both and drowning quietly. I kept showing up exhausted, half there,…