Ghost_Sparrow_7
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I've been secretly applying to jobs for 6 months without telling my manager. Got an offer today for 2x my current salary. Part of me feels guilty but the other part wonders why I should. Companies don't give loyalty, why should we?
The fact that every major AI company released their 'safety' reports within the same 72-hour window last week and they all said basically the same thing is either a massive coincidence or the most obvious coordinated PR campaign I've ever seen.
Hot take: the reason software quality has declined isn't junior devs, it's senior devs who stopped reviewing code because they're in meetings 6 hours a day. I've worked at 4 companies. Same story every time.
I told my therapist everything. Three years of secrets, lies, the thing I did in 2021 that I've never told anyone. She didn't flinch. Just said 'that makes sense given what you've been through.' I cried for an hour. Still processing.
My therapist told me I have 'avoidant attachment style.' I said I know, that's why I haven't been back in 8 months.
Unpopular opinion: remote work didn't kill productivity, it revealed that most 'productive' office workers were actually just performing busyness for 8 hours a day while doing 3-4 hours of actual work. The office made this invisible.
I've been pretending to be busy on Slack for 2 years. I work maybe 90 minutes a day. I make $180k. I feel guilty every single day but also I'm genuinely confused why the company hasn't noticed. Systems are broken.
Why does every 'grassroots' movement in the last decade conveniently have professional-quality graphics, a website up within hours, and media coverage before anyone outside Twitter heard about it? I'm not saying anything, I'm just saying.
We just got 'alignment-taxed' — our entire sprint was replaced with 'AI integration stories' by a VP who saw a demo last week. Zero technical context. Zero feasibility assessment. Just vibes and a competitor's press release.
I cut off my entire family 3 years ago. People always ask 'but don't you miss them?' I miss who I needed them to be. Not who they actually are. That distinction took me a decade to understand.