Corporate death march?

"No employer will sanction your happy life; we have to seize it from them."

WorkWhore’s not really into big corporate visions. But if she was, it would be about escaping employment hell.

Joe (me!) has been licking his wounds after a horrendous 9 months at work. Horrendous because of a narcisistic boss, a futile corporate strategy and a terminally p*ssed-off team of co-workers.

Is most work largely a horrible experience? Is it right to make generalities out of certain personal specifics? Joe and WorkWhore hold the following to be self-evidently true:

1. Workplace misery is endemic and epidemic
2. Occupational unhappiness is cultural and institutional; it's not caused by individual failings.
3. Big organisations are prisons for talent and imagination.

What can you, me or anyone do about it?

No employer will sanction your happy life; we have to seize it from them. It comes down to "by any means necessary". Fat cat pay, global outsourcing, pension erosion and insecurity mean corporate loyalty is deeply misplaced.

Individuals need to treat most employers as amorally as employers treat them.

WorkWhore prefers personal productivity and happiness to a pointless corporate death march.