I’m leaving my corporate job. I don’t fit into this world. The reality has sunk in. I find it incredibly fake, all of the pointless meetings, contributing to birthdays for people I speak to once a month, pressure to “go above and beyond” and join pointless committees like a recycling committee, cliquey groups and my goodness the amount of brown nosing, kissing ass and sucking up … I simply can’t bring myself to do it. I see how some of my peers have climbed the ladder, they are on their emails at 11pm at night, they are competitive, ruthless and very cleverly plant the seed of doubt in their bosses heads that other people in the team aren’t very good or innocently say “ oh __ forgot to do that, so I took the initiative and did it”. These people are not your friends, you have to spend your own money to sit with people and pretend to like them over lunches and these people will backstab you get to where they want to be. I’ve sat and observed the corporate circus and I choose not to be false and join in on scapegoating the weak team members and picking on people. Management teams are ego fed and rely on enabling sycophantic flying monkeys to get them to do their dirty work. I choose to be genuine and no longer associate.