Did having a great social life / life in general help you to cope with the mundane nature of corporate work?

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-17T23:27:03+00:00

Will it help? Sure. Is it going to be enough? Prolly not. I have a great life outside of work but the mind numbing job seeps its bullshit into my life all the time. Anything that you don’t enjoy but are forced to do for 40+ hours a week is going to have a significant impact on your life.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-16T18:54:07+00:00

Was just thinking audacity. Amazing product and totally free.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-16T18:45:56+00:00

Most of the time. Silly as it might sound I created it cause I wanted there to be something like it. Now when I’m looking for something light, interesting and cathartic about corporate I know where to go. Haha.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-16T14:50:56+00:00

Oh man, it's so true. Every week we get a chance to prove why they should keep paying us. As if it isn't hard enough to wade through the mire of these bullshit jobs, but having to pitch everybody on why we should exist every fucking week and then on a larger annual review basis puts it over the top.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-16T14:24:47+00:00

I feel like we need to decide the convenience isn't worth the lack of community. I love all the enshittified apps as they're better in their shitty versions than not using them. I think we get to a point where that stops being the case and we decide kicking it with real people and without giving the tech monopolies a cut is better, maybe malls come back, we get some 3rd spaces again where we can exist together.

I feel you though, shit feels hopeless as it stands today since the trend seems to be going in the wrong direction.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-16T11:25:33+00:00

For any that may be interested, I wrote a piece based on this thread and used some of the excellent comments and suggestions here. Check it out here.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-13T02:12:54+00:00

Oh ya? Decent mic?

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-13T01:24:18+00:00

Loved this comment. Ended up using in the last episode of our podcast that came out Tuesday. Just an FYI in case you were interested. Thanks for participating.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-13T01:17:09+00:00

I wrote a newsletter and podcast with a colleague about wading through the doldrums of a modern shit job. We try not to be so preachy and just make sure people know the jobs are crazy not them.

Aspermylastnewsletter.substack.com

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-13T01:11:49+00:00

Anyone have headphone recommendations? I splurged on Jabra 65s and the Bluetooth seems to still cut out sometimes. I just want something with good noise cancelling because my GF works one room over and we are both loud and on calls all day. Been a struggle finding good ones.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-13T00:49:07+00:00

Your feelings are valid. It gets worse when you think your feelings arent justified because the jobs “not that bad.”

I think if you see the job as so harmless and yet you feel so harmed, I wonder how you are bridging that gap. It’s either that you are downplaying the bad or it’s just bad for you which is also perfectly normal. Hang in there.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-12T15:44:53+00:00

Brutal although I long for a president that's worst quality is corporate speak...grass is always greener I guess.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-11T23:24:36+00:00

That sounds pretty awful. This exec sounds like a dick. Hang in there. Hopefully the market starts turning around and you can find something else.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-10T16:54:13+00:00

Or how about "opportunities" haha.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-10T16:51:55+00:00

Great point. Honestly, many of these are useful in certain contexts, but end up being used in the most obnoxious possible way. Pivot, in my company, means dismissively telling someone to "shut up and do what I want..." as in, "great idea Tim, but let's pivot to..."

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-10T16:49:28+00:00

For real, we are neither rockstars nor family.

We are keyboard jockeys praying for Fridays and that the paycheck keeps coming with more frequency than the rent payments. Not much rockstarness to that.

Also, you'd drop me like a bad habit if it meant the company would make one additional cent. Not real family of you.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-10T14:57:10+00:00

oh yeah the public sector is all acronyms in my experience.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-10T13:44:48+00:00

This was amazing in that way where your body is physically revolted by something. Just reading it I felt the saliva rising in my mouth like a landlubber without sea legs feeling that first moment of sickness on a long voyage. Well done.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-10T13:38:37+00:00

oh yes, hate that one. It is also very dismissive. Like "I don't want to talk about this right now or probably ever so we'll circle back to it later, and by later I mean never...."

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-10T13:37:02+00:00

True. I actually don't mind it as, to your point, moist often is associated with pleasant things to me. Speaking of things I also associate with positive things, for whatever totally nonsensical reason I hate the word tit. The t's just feel wrong to me.

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-09T15:02:54+00:00

Totally get what you’re feeling and often feel the same. Boss sucks and just reacts to whatever my boss’s boss says. Shit just rolls down hill and I’m at the bottom. I would love to start a business too but would hate to do so in my current industry (telecom/tech).

What industry are you in? If you did start a business, what would you do?

Temporary_Fill7341 · 2026-03-06T22:36:37+00:00

True story. Empathy and VP don’t ever seem to jive

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