Been working in my position at a sleepy nonprofit for about a year now. Not too much work, you can coast. Helped my boss hire a real go getter, webinar-watcher type that I met at a networking event for a role adjacent to mine in a different department. Figured it’d be good since that job had high turnover and she didn’t seem like she’d quit.
She immediately starts overhauling everything. She’s high anxiety and always talking about how much more we need to do. Convinces my boss to combine our departments so I can work directly under her. Now she’s barking orders, setting deadlines, and sending me links for webinars for me to go to and implying I’m not working hard enough. Told me she’s going to hold me “accountable.” I’ve totally fucked myself. I’ve created a golem!
I hate webinars. I hate having to constantly pretend to give a shit about “metrics.” I hate how everything is predicated on growth. I hate career strivers who are always using buzzwords and asking me to go to networking events.
I don’t want to network. I don’t want to go to conferences. I don’t want to “grow” in my role. I want to exchange my labor for money and do exactly enough to not get fired so I can go live out the small piece that’s left of my life after I do all this dumb shit I’m required to do. I want to ultimately be left alone.
Why can’t people just leave well enough alone and not fuck up a good thing?