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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I relate completely, OP!! To help people understand-for me the problem is having to actively participate in validating an alternate reality that I know is false, but I cannot say it’s false and keep my job. Like having to pretend to believe things that any idiot could know are false. It rots my soul and makes me feel like a bad person.[/quote] op - yesssss. I'll give some more examples: at my work, barely anyone makes small talk ever or laughs or shares something funny or personal that happened to them (not in a forced way, just like human connection. All talk time is used for business but if you are on 7 hours of calls a day I start to sort of unravel - I need to like, feel like a human being for a second. I could give more examples, but that's a huge one. [/quote] Have you never had a real job, like a busy retail job where you have to work with people from all walks of life and have a constant stream of customers? Or a demanding technical or manual job where actual productive work is required for 7 hours? 7 hours, that’s not even the full day? You want to treat your job like a hobby, where you can hang with friends and “unravel”? Let your DH be the breadwinner and you get a hobby job like a photo studio. [/quote] op - 1. 7 hours is just the time I spend on zoom. My typical workday is 9-10h all in. 2. Yes I've worked in retail, waited tables at restaurants and bars, done a year of overnight shifts, 4.30a-1230p shifts (sometimes in tandem) and done months at a clip where I had no days off (including weekends. I had no days off, for example, from Nov 8 to December 17 last year (including thanksgiving) bc we had a huge pitch and it was not going well. So.... yeah. 3. I don't care about hard work. But if I'm working hard I can't also then keep up a facade. [/quote] This sounds like regular burnout. Stop dressing it up as a culture issue and take a vacation. [/quote]
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