Following a 14-hour day that ended in more work being assigned than ever before, another manager said to our director, “Every challenge is a gift.” The suck-up culture has become almost unbearable. Has anyone else seen a rise in the corporate “game-playing” recently?

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There are still some of us that believe the world stops spinning if they leave the workplace. That the company business or whatever will go under without them there.

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