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You seem quite emotional about this. Is there something more to your argument against this other than your feelings about how others address their grievances in an unequal power structure?

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Sure, long story short is that I was exactly this person. I didn't publicly air the grievances, but the toxicity ate me inside. It took awhile to get perspective on that everyone is just a person and doing their best. I'm lucky to have a job, I'm lucky to lose a job, I'm grateful. It takes so long to understand you build a web of persecution in your mind because you are emotionally immature.

This is standard shit that young people can go through. I've WRITTEN crazy diatribes like this and deleted it. I got it out for myself, but reflected on it carefully.

I had to literally therapy myself out of just how self-important I became.

You sound like you're projecting your own maladaptive worldview/attitude/lifestyle onto others. Maybe the culture is changing, and not everyone who is calling out bad behavior at various companies is as narcissistic as yourself? In fact, it would seem to me that, in your bitterness, you are still just as self-centered as those you're attempting to criticize.

I speak the language of a narcissist and you understood it. The language of narcissism is in this article and I'm fluent. I'm a massive work in progress for sure, but I'm not going to sit around and act like I don't see what I was and am all around me.

Narcissists are people too man, believe it or not. We literally need to work on ... not writing LinkedIn articles (or in my case HN posts).

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