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Most Employees Are Stuck in the Corporate Matrix. You (Unknowingly) Could Be Too.
Here’s how to escape if you feel numb at work.
“He’s not a crackpot. He’s institutionalized.”
Until a few years ago I’d never heard the word institutionalized. My corporate compadres taught me the word. The meaning is given to those who work as employees for long enough to get stuck in the corporate matrix. Just like Matrix the movie, they don’t know they’re stuck in it.
Hero-clapping CEO speeches and talking like a fanboy about them in the tea room is just what they do. They can’t see the other side, that may be the truth their company presents to the public could be full of lies designed to make fat cats lots of money.
Now comes the strange part. I was stuck in the corporate matrix too and had no idea. Let me explain what it looks like — in case you’ve accidentally become trapped too. Then we’ll see how to escape.
(Warning: This is not another “quit your job post.”)
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