Company or Cult?

Here is a common characteristic of a worthless clickbait article: it starts with a plausible strawman, it fades the first paragraph into something you think you want to read, then it hits you with the inevitable "subscribe or login or do something to get your email full of our spam" request.

There's nothing quite like an extremely boring all hands where the middle management absolutely fall over themselves to applaud the big cheese, having dryly announced average performance last quarter, in as over the top a manner as they seem to be able to muster.

For those of us less invested in the corporate hierarchy, watching these cult moments slip through is uncomfortable at the best of times.

“If none of the above resonates, rest easy: you are not in a cult. But you are unemployed.”

Delightful.

Perhaps the Stockholm syndrome ran deeper than I thought. Time to begin work on my memoirs?