I see you. The way you band together, feeding off each other’s bitterness, inventing reasons to dislike me just so you can all feel a little less empty for a few minutes. Congratulations, you’ve managed to push me to the point where I cry after work more often than I’d like to admit. But here’s the part you don’t seem to understand: tears are not defeat. They are release. And every morning, I still get up, I still show up, and I still carry on.

Your cruelty isn’t power. It’s boredom. It’s desperation. It’s the sad glue holding together a group of people too jealous, too insecure, or too hollow to find joy anywhere else. And it shows.

You can keep your whispered alliances, your eye rolls, your little games. But know this: you don’t own me. You don’t get to take my life, my sense of self, or my future. I need this job, yes, but that need does not give you power over me. It only reveals how little power you truly have, if breaking someone down is the best you can do with your days.

Grow up. Get a life. Because you can’t have mine.

Signed,
Someone Stronger Than You’ll Ever Be

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9 replies on “Dear Little Club of Misery”

  2. the incurious

    and small-minded

    can fine ‘entertainment’

    in keeping others at their level

    or doing their best

    to Try and do so.

    Fuck ’em.

    a fellow Em-

    ployee dwe-

    bee?

  4. Yeah, F’m, but some self-reflection wouldn’t hurt. Keep a positive attitude, work hard, learn as much as possible, and move up or on. That’s victory.

  7. “Grow up. Get a life. Because you can’t have mine.”

    You end each day crying and felt the need to write this post. I hate to break it to you, but they already have your life.

    And let’s be honest–if you were as strong and powerful as you think you are in this situation, you’d laugh and ignore the eye rolls and whispered alliances.

    And #3 is right–if an entire office hates you, it might be you and not them.

    I’ll bet you a dollar you’ve never spoken to them about it–which is something someone who is “Stronger than [they’ll] ever be” would probably have done by now.

  8. @7 — so go Postal?

    “… if

    you were as

    strong and power-

    ful as you think you are… “

    then This

    is precisely

    How you Be-

    Come both Strong

    and Powerful — Kudos

    and Ignore

    the Naysayers:

    they want you to

    keep your head Down

    and keep taking Crap for Ever.

    Fuck THEM Too

  9. Hang in there- unlike some of the randomly judgmental verbal bullies in this thread, I reject the idea that you’ve done anything to deserve this treatment.

    Sometimes, people can be bitter and petty for no reason.

    P.S., please disregard all of the above if your name is Howard Schultz, Elon Musk, or Jeff Bezos.

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