At the morning meeting today my boss ended it with a speech about being competitive and fostering competition among employees. She said some shit about finding where your worth is – like are you someone who is content with getting my and doing your work or someone who wants more.
Competition does not make life fun. It stole all of the joy from my life and made me suicidal in the past. Not dealing with that again.
Meanwhile they have a culture of telling on each other for mistakes and employees never talking to each other outside of professional setting. I refuse to engage in it. When someone makes a mistake I message them directly and help them fix it. Most people do that with me but I can tell there are some that are the competitive type my boss wants that revel in reporting mistakes. I know this because it is always the same women reporting my mistakes. It’s work from home. I don’t even like office small talk that’s why I wanted to work from home, but it’s a weird trade off that there isn’t any connection there at all to say – hey the boss was really annoying in that meeting today. We’re not a team at all. There is such a spotlight on us being rats i the rat race. Makes me sick, but it’s the best gif I’ve had benefits and pay wise, so I’ll just come here to rant since there’s no one at work I can rant with.
Maybe interesting to note that the trade off for work from home is that it is almost entirely impossible to foster comradery with your colleagues. I definitely prefer it but the potential impact to uionizing and the power of the laborer is hard to ignore.