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I know people will read this and roll their eyes. They’ll say, "You have money, you have a family, what right do you have to complain?" Maybe they’re right. But I need to write this somewhere anonymously, because out...
1/ I was fired on my very first day as an intern. Not for making a catastrophic mistake, not for showing up late, but because I dared to go home after working unpaid overtime. 2/ The company is Alpha Test, an SAT prep a...
Tiny emotional questions people secretly answer.
A few months ago, I made what I thought was the right decision. I received a better job offer, resigned from my old company, and canceled my UAE residency so my new employer could process a new one. I did everything by t...
I spent two years swallowing the "we're like a family here" corporate propaganda until today broke something inside me for good. Seeing the news about a mother literally protesting on the pavement outside her tech office...
Nobody tells you that being dependable at work is a trap. I spent four years being the "go-to" person. I was the one who stayed until 8 PM to fix broken spreadsheets, the one who picked up slack when teammates fell behi...
Jump into the feeling you came with.
For 12 years, I was “the calm one.” The employee who stayed late without complaining. The one who handled last-minute requests. The one who absorbed pressure from clients, management, deadlines, and impossible expecta...
We have been trying to get married for 3 years. First, it was the financial struggle. Then, it was the war. Now, it’s a sudden corporate policy change that might separate us indefinitely. We are running out of time, ru...
A few days ago, I took a day off. No meetings. No deadlines. No calls. The kind of day I used to dream about when work got overwhelming. But instead of feeling relaxed, I spent the entire day checking my phone....
I never understood why parents sit in the parking lot for a few extra minutes after dropping their child off. I thought maybe they were checking emails or finishing a phone call before work. Now I think some of the...
Here’s the part that actually makes me feel insane: I used to be good. Like, genuinely good at this. Now I stare at one email for 40 minutes. I open a doc, close it, open Instagram, feel disgusting, open the doc again. E...
A few years ago, I used to look forward to things. Trips. Weekends. Birthdays. New jobs. Even small things like ordering food on a Friday night or meeting friends after work felt exciting. Now I mostly just move fr...
I've worked in enough places now to notice a pattern. Every workplace seems to have that one person who somehow operates under a completely different set of rules. They're late regularly, miss deadlines, create extra...
I've been thinking about something lately. A few years ago, I was involved in a project at work that completely consumed my life for a few weeks. There were daily meetings, management escalations, endless emails, and eve...
I have mastered the look of someone who has it together. Calendar full, replies fast, always nodding. But most days I am quietly unsure if anything I do matters, performing productivity while feeling completely adrift. T...
I do the work, I get the praise, and then when it is time to talk money I shrink into a polite, grateful version of myself that accepts whatever is offered. I have watched people with half my output ask for double and ge...
People would kill for this role and I know it, which is exactly why I cannot complain out loud anywhere but here. The pressure to be grateful is its own weight. I smile in meetings and cry in the car. Wanting something f...
On paper I have made it. Good title, good money, the kind of role people congratulate you for. But I snap at people I love, I dread Monday by Saturday afternoon, and I have not felt curious about anything in months. The...
New title, more money, a team that looks to me for answers. And a voice in my head insisting I fooled everyone and the moment they realise I'm in over my head is coming. I keep over-preparing and under-sleeping to outrun...
I've been running on caffeine and to-do lists for two years straight. Today a tiny thing went wrong at work and I just folded. I locked myself in a stall and cried until my face went numb, then walked out and pretended n...
I genuinely think the Indian middle class is one bad month away from collective burnout. Everywhere I look, people are just stressed all the time now. Rent increasing. School fees increasing. Petrol increasing....
