💼 Office

It's on my phone. It has notes next to each name. I will never block them. I just want to know.

They asked. I gave them the truth. They didn't talk to me for a month. I'm still not sure if I should have lied. They had practiced for weeks.

came from a super toxic environment where ppl would cc your manager on emails to snitch. at this new place someone brought me coffee on my first day and asked how i was settling in and i almost…

she was giving her usual 20 minute monologue in the standup and i said to my roommate "oh my god she literally never stops talking" and then i saw the chat blowing up. she heard. everyone heard. i…

"we appreciate you guys so much heres 3 dominos pizzas for 40 people" yeah thanks that really makes up for the 60 hour weeks and cancelled vacations. im so done with pizza party culture

without fail. 7:30am. "Rise and grind!" with a stock photo of a mountain. i want to reply with "please stop" but hes so sincere about it that i just react with a thumbs up and die inside

2 weeks notice. no counter offer will change my mind. ive been disrespected for the last time. the look on my managers face when he realized he has no idea how to do half the things i do? priceless

alt tab is my most used keyboard shortcut. i have a spreadsheet open at all times that i never touch just so it looks like im doing something. in reality im on reddit 60% of the day. somehow i still…

shes been here 3 weeks and already automated something i do manually every day. i should be impressed and i am but also im having an existential crisis about my career choices

everyone else seems to get it and im just clicking random buttons hoping for the best. there was a training session but i was on PTO and now nobody has time to show me. im surviving on vibes and…

cant say no. physically cannot do it. someone asks me to help and i say sure even though im drowning. currently juggling 4 projects and sleeping 4 hours a night. this is fine. everything is fine.…

been at my current place for 6 years. i know everyone. i know the systems. its comfortable. new job is exciting but terrifying. what if the grass isnt greener. what if i hate it. what if they hate…

someone brought their golden retriever in and i pet him for 45 minutes straight instead of doing my quarterly report. zero regrets. his name is Benny and he is my best friend now

found out by accident when payroll sent me the wrong attachment. im not even mad anymore im just tired. 4 years of loyalty and good reviews and some guy fresh out of college makes more bc the…

every meeting is just me being told that the way ive been doing things for 5 minutes is wrong because Dave has been doing it his way for 30 years. dave your way involves a fax machine but ok

had to go into the office yesterday for the first time in months and i literally forgot how to do small talk. someone asked about my weekend and i panicked and said "it was adequate" like a robot.…

told a client i was "unavailable" when i was literally sitting at my desk doing nothing. turns out he gave the project to his buddy in another department. the politics at this place are insane.…

she made that place bearable. the eye contact during meetings when someone said something dumb. the coffee runs. the venting sessions. now its just... work. applied to 3 jobs today

just sat through a 90 minute meeting where exactly 3 sentences were relevant to me. THREE. i could have built an entire feature in that time. corporate culture is a disease

everyone here is so smart and experienced and im just googling things under my desk hoping nobody notices. been here 3 months and still feel like theyre gonna figure out i have no idea what im doing…

its so weird. we used to trash talk management together at lunch and now im management. she says its fine but things are different. she doesnt send me memes during meetings anymore. i hate this

EVERY. DAY. the whole floor smells like a pier. ive complained to HR twice and they said theres no policy against it. this is my villain origin story fr

it was a cat meme at least and not something worse. 200+ people saw it. my manager just reacted with a laughing emoji. the CEO left me on read. i want to evaporate

third time this month. today it was leftover lasagna that took me an hour to make. i left a note saying "i hope you enjoy it, i put laxatives in it" and suddenly nobody stole my lunch the rest of…

had my performance review and they said im "meeting expectations" after i literally carried the team for 6 months while 2 people were on leave. meeting expectations. meeting. i smiled and said thank…

spent 3 weeks building a presentation from scratch. data collection, analysis, design, everything. boss presented it to the directors and said "i put this together" without even flinching. nobody in…