Easy
Quit and become destitute and homeless
Because apparently these days those are the only two options available
this post was submitted on 07 May 2026
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There's a sweet spot in the corporate ladder. People at the bottom get the daily grunt work stuff that's time consuming and repetitive. People at the top end up with competing responsibilities so they spending most of their time in meetings about other meetings and arguing about planning to make decisions. It's right in the middle where you blend into the background and can spend half your work day in your underwear playing video games. And that's exactly where I like to live
Until you get too many middle managers vying to climb the corporate ladder. Then it's all meetings about the meeting in six months, that you'll need 3x daily meetings to prepare for. After the big meeting you have to do follow-up meetings for the next 6 months until they come up with an idea for another big meeting. All while creating and sending reports about the meetings to other managers and the c-suite. Which then triggers yet more meetings.
Oh and you must have weekly meetings with your subordinates to update them on results of the other meetings. Those meetings can't be at the same time as the safety meetings (you are doing those weekly right) or the corporate wide meetings that are called at least monthly.
That's middle managers
Correct
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Start your own business, and get out. It's hard work, but you'll never be sorry to not have to suffer supervisory fools and toxic co-workers any longer.
Golden parachute
Pregnancy
I tried climbing the ladder, every time I got a weight put on me that was responsibilities along with the low pay weight. I couldn't climb at best, back slid more often. Fuck that ladder.
It’s hard to feel bad for anyone stuck in a position of relative success. For many of us, there’s simply no way to relate to such an issue.
It's just financial success for the most part though, and it's not like "I've built generational wealth" financial success, just I can afford to live in this shithole country somewhat comfortably financial success. The amount of asshattery that one has to put up with to get to that point though tends to pile a ton of stress and extra work and general malcontent onto most people.
I would be so glad to be able to live in this shithole country somewhat comfortably. :( I don't doubt it's extra stress and extra work being higher up the "ladder", but it's hard to imagine it's more stressful than living paycheck-to-paycheck and having to make decisions about whether it's more urgent to pay for food or medication this week. One group worries about work decisions 8 hours a day (maybe more, if salaried or on call), the other worries about basic survival 24 hours a day.
Yep. I just took a leap. Worked out fine.
Sorry, can't relate. Not even sure what her problem is. "Boo-hoo I earn too much money & don't know how to stop!"
You demote yourself back to an IC. And they'll let you do it. And most likely they'll let you keep your salary and just make up some god-tier IC role for you to fall into.
Don't let your job dictate how you can best do your job. You know your own capabilities best. If you're better in an IC role, demote yourself and do the thing that gives you purpose.
Jump
Jump
If you're "lucky" you have the golden parachute.
If not, well that's life.
You gotta apply to another company now. There's no way back down in the same company that won't piss people off.
Life abroad is a pretty sound strategy.
Sure, if you're privileged enough to have a remote job and you're comfortable with getting a cheaper lifestyle through what essentially amounts to neocolonialism. But what about everyone else?
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Quit, sell all your shit, and move to another country, start back over.
I did this. Was a manager of a NOC. Been a sysadmin. Had good corporate jobs. Decided to jump off and start my own company. Now I'm sitting here in shorts and t shirt getting ready to head out of state to do a job for a couple hours before being back home for dinner. A nice way to spend the day, and being paid better then ever.
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