This morning, you made it clear that I am ‘just another employee’ and that my attempts at kindness are unwelcome disruptions to your corporate machine. You’re right—I don’t belong here. I never have.
I don’t belong in a place that values efficiency over humanity, where six years of exemplary work can be dismissed in a moment of cruel, pointless theater.
Consider this my formal notice. Someone else can be your verbal target practice.
I have better things to do with my time.
Better, but still not quite right. Too emotional. Too revealing.
This time, I don’t think. I just speak from the heart.
Life is too short to spend it being humiliated by someone who wouldn’t recognize human kindness if it shoved kouign-amann from Grain & Gather down his throat until he choked on it.
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