Reply to Anyone else struggle with the veneer of professionalism?

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "Anyone else struggle with the veneer of professionalism? "

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Absolutely relate to this.  20 years in corporate America climbing that ladder.   Just took a voluntary buyout.  Not sure what’s next but I have time to figure it out.

Zoom is a big part of it.  It’s awful for so many reasons.

For me a big part of it was not being able to say what I wanted to say or what the obvious elephant in the room was.  I know how to behave in a corporate setting (see: moving up that ladder!) but the disconnect between the reality and the narrow window of how we were expected to act or what our role was (I also used to think of the play analogy all the time) was really getting to me.  I felt it in my throat sometimes - like all the words and feelings just sitting there stuck and unable to get out.   I am not sure if it’s inevitable or if I wasn’t cut out for senior level roles.   I am capable of doing the work and playing there politics but behaving in the environment was affecting me more than I wanted it to.

Not sure the solution but I know exactly what you mean.  I think if you are smart and you see this clearly, it’s hard to unsee. [/quote]

I feel your pain, it must be absolute torture to sit at a desk all day in an air-conditioned office or home, looking at the monitor and acting politely with people on the screen the screen while making nearly $1 million. True hardship.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics