Posts in this series are now listed at https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/p/recovering-from-corporate-life.html.
Something I didn’t expect quite so soon was a crash of mood.
After the high of my last day in engineering, the trauma of socially widespread (endemic is probably more accurate) bigotry and the accumulated trauma of this demanding and often abusive profession hit home in a rush. That wasn’t helped by reading of the appalling attempts by the cismale heterosexual head of Spain’s soccer organisation to cover up his misogyny, which I wrote about here, nor reading this attempted resurrection of two decade old bigotry (which reminds me of the need for what I wrote here and here ... such people have built emotional and mental palaces on a series of false premises, and are so amathiac that they think to change is to threaten to bring down all their goals - whereas the truth is that if they accept reality, grieve the minor changes to their place that are necessary, they will, in fact, wind up with an edifice on solid ground).
For Goddess’s sake people, you don’t even really have to try being better: just stop being such backward reprobates.
That sort of attitude and response is the worst of the corporate world - the sort of dinosaur attitudes that are being successfully countered by so many people in the corporate world.
And, writing as a former Board Director, if Board Directors are doing their job competently, they’ll get rid of those dinosaurs.
I hope Directors will learn from this series I am writing - and, now that I have written some of the stress and trauma out, time for some meditation and exercise (and then sleep).
And hopefully I can slow down and write fewer, more reflective & deeper posts ...
Blessed be.
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