Tag: life
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The Day You Realise They Never Intended to Keep You
There’s a moment in some jobs where the illusion quietly collapses. Nothing dramatic happens.No argument.No HR meeting. Just a small, almost forgettable interaction that makes everything click. And once it does, you realise something uncomfortable: They never planned for you to stay. The Long-Term Talk That Never Happens Think back. How many times have you…
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You’re Not “Hard to Manage”… You’re Just Hard to Exploit
There’s a label managers love to use when an employee stops playing along. “Difficult.”“Challenging.”“Hard to manage.” It usually appears right after you do something unforgivable — like asking for clarity, questioning priorities, or noticing that expectations keep changing while rewards never do. Let’s be clear: you didn’t suddenly become difficult.You just stopped being convenient. When…
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“We’re Just Not There Yet”: The Corporate Phrase That Means Never
There’s a phrase that should instantly trigger your fight-or-flight response. You’ve heard it in one-to-ones.You’ve heard it in performance reviews.You’ve heard it just after you’ve gone above and beyond for the third quarter in a row. “We’re just not there yet.” Not there yet for the promotion.Not there yet for the raise.Not there yet for…
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How Being Good at Your Job Turns You Into a Dumping Ground
Nobody tells you this when you start your career, but being good at your job can be one of the worst things that happens to you in corporate. Not because competence is bad, but because in the wrong environment, competence is not rewarded. It is exploited. At first, it feels positive. You get trusted. People…
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“We’ll Revisit This Later” Is Corporate for “Nothing Is Changing”
There’s a sentence every underpaid high performer eventually learns to dread. “We’ll revisit this later.” It sounds reasonable. Sensible, even. Calm. Like progress is happening quietly in the background. It isn’t. It’s a polite way of ending the conversation without solving anything. A soft close on a door that was never open to begin with.…
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The Moment You Realise You’re the Only One Who Cares About Doing Things Right
There’s a moment in every corporate career when you realise you are the only person in the room who cares about doing things properly. Not quickly. Not cheaply. Not in a way that makes leadership smile at a dashboard. But properly. It hits you slowly, then all at once. You’re in yet another meeting where…
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When You Stop Caring (And Nobody Notices)
It doesn’t happen in one dramatic moment. There’s no single day when you slam your laptop shut and declare you’ve had enough. It happens slowly. Quietly. A little more each week until one day you realise something that used to matter deeply now feels like nothing at all. You stop caring. And the scary part?…
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The Day You Realise You Cannot Do Corporate Anymore
It does not happen all at once. At first, you convince yourself the frustration is normal. Every job has bad days. Every company has politics. Every boss has flaws. You tell yourself it will get better. You tell yourself to stick it out. But then one day, something shifts. A meeting, a comment, a decision…
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The Day You Realise You Cannot Do Corporate Anymore
It does not happen all at once. At first, you convince yourself the frustration is normal. Every job has bad days. Every company has politics. Every boss has flaws. You tell yourself it will get better. You tell yourself to stick it out. But then one day, something shifts. A meeting, a comment, a decision…
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The Disaster Everyone Predicted (Except Leadership)
Every workplace has its disasters. The botched release. The broken migration. The shiny new “initiative” that burned months of effort only to collapse in silence. And every time, leadership acts shocked. “How could this happen?” “Nobody could have seen this coming!” Except everyone did see it coming. Everyone except them. The Warnings That Nobody Wanted…
The Toxic Boss 