| "Very few of the lessons my parents taught me apply in the corporate world. Be honest and straight with people, assume good intent, take responsibility, etc." "All that behavior will do is paint you as naive. Sure there's room for honesty and responsibility, but only when used appropriately (strategically). Strikes me as acutely inhumane every time my career is rewarded for suppressing those behaviors." The corporate world is only a reflection of the society that makes it up. There are plenty of people who are dishonest and manipulative. There is no real way to "fix" the corporate world. Ergo there are only two ways to fix it, both of them only involving yourself: I see a number of comments here opining that the current workforce health crisis is driven by a "money is happiness" society.
You know what money buys you in this case? Freedom. The freedom to act how you wish and not care about this game. Once you are free from that, it is a matter of perspective: "The only thing that's capital-T True is that you get to decide how you're gonna try to see it. This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn't. You get to decide what to worship. That is real freedom. That is being educated, and understanding how to think. The alternative is unconsciousness, the default setting, the rat race, the constant gnawing sense of having had, and lost, some infinite thing." - "This is Water", David Foster Wallace
https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~drkelly/DFWKenyonAddress2005.pdf |