Nobody Will Count You If You Leave Early
He's 23, well paid, happy at work, and planning his escape. No survey will ever count him.
8.4% of Us Say It Worked
They took apart the thing you spent twenty years building. 8.4% of them say it worked.
Mourning a Job You Still Have
Three people, ten days, the same strange word: mourning. Each of them still had a job.
The Thing You're Best At Is the Thing You Can Least Prove
Ford swapped its engineers for AI, then brought 350 of them back. What it could not automate was the part nobody had ever written down.
They Fired You, Rehired You, and Never Sent the Bill
They measured what it cost to fire you. Then what it cost to hire you back. Nobody measured what the round trip did to you.
Nobody Was Fired
Nobody was fired. The door just stopped opening. That is much harder to grieve than being let go.