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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am 39 and just got laid off last week.  I have worked for the better part of the last 26 years, and I am exhausted.  I did blue collar work until my early thirties, when I got my degrees, and have been in the professional work force for the last five years.

I have been lied to, lied about, been caught in the political crosshairs of the office environment, bullied, sexually harassed, demeaned, pushed out, sidelined, etc.  I was so on guard leaving my previous role for this new one, but this last job was probably the worst in terms of a lack of “psychological safety”:[b] I was micromanaged, asked to send copies of emails for editing/review before sending out, spoken to like a naughty child when I didn’t read the minds of the managers I was supporting etc.  The client loved me but my immediate peers/managers were passive-aggressive and the opposite of supportive. [/b]

ATP corporate America just seems like an exploitive toxic sludge and I feel panic when I think about taking on a new role.  I never seem to be able to align with the right people and end up scapegoated.  I’m sure there’s some blind spots but generally I’m very well-liked, it just seems that I’m an easy target for the workplace bully/ies and I am afraid of being in any kind of situation like that again.

Has anyone else been in this position? I have an MBA and want to work - I actually like working, even outside of the income perspective - but I am just so gun-shy.  I feel like I’ll never find a place that’s honest and transparent and generally positive.  Is it me? Is it them? Is this just the nature of work in America?[/quote]

I can relate to this so much. I am 41 and burnt out. I try to care about my work and doing a good job, but I just can't.[/quote]

39 and I too am so burnt out. I would say that I have work trauma. Certain things play in my head over and over. Like the time a male coworker that I'd never met filed an EEO against me (I denied his project funding, but that was a program decision and nothing to do with him personally). I thought it was a joke, but nope, work took it seriously and investigated it for months. I am such a conscientious person, so it really bothered me that someone could say I was discriminating against them and getting away with it. We're both white so I'm not even sure what I could discriminate against him for. Or the time my new manager denied all of my leave just for fun. Work said she had the right to do it. [/quote]

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