The record of everyone quietly doing the math on loyalty — and coming up short. You do enough to stay employed. Nothing more. Loyalty is a two-way transaction, and corporate defaulted on its side a long time ago. You were never just your job title — you just stopped pretending otherwise.
You've been in corporate since you were twenty, and you're good at it — not because it lit you up, because it pays the bills. That's an honest reason most people are too afraid to say out loud.
Underestimated for how you look, not what you do. Overexposed and unseen at the same time. There's no policy for that. So you didn't fight a system built to protect itself.
You did something quieter, and more subversive: you stopped giving it your all. Enough to stay employed. Nothing more. You clock out mentally the second the meeting ends.
underneath all of it: you are more than your job. you were a whole person before the offer letter, and corporate was never going to remember that for you.
too much, too attractive, too visible, too honest, too unfiltered, too real for a culture built on performing commitment nobody actually feels.
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