The other professional network
LinkedIn keeps the handshake. Linked-Out keeps the exit interview nobody recorded. Anonymous stories. Named patterns. No thought leadership.
I told my manager I needed the week. He said take whatever I need. On Wednesday my access died in a hotel lobby. The email subject was 'An update on your role.' I was not even in the 'low performer' bucket they invented later for the press. I was expensive, remote, and easy to cut without a hallway conversation.
We were a distributed company until the lease needed a story. Alignment meant three days in an office 90 minutes from where they told us to live in 2021. There was no data. There was a vibe. I declined the vibe.
The hospital put a meditation app in the benefits portal the same month they cut night-shift differentials. Flexibility meant I ate standing up and cried in the supply closet twice a week. A patient asked me if I was okay. That is when I knew the job had inverted.
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Pick a handle. Name the company or keep it veiled. Tell the part that would never survive Legal.
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Burnout, pay, ethics, hours — stack the labels so the next person can find the pattern.
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Stories live in this browser. Upvote what rings true. Save the ones you needed last year.