The Consistently Two-Faced Nature Of Work

Round and round we go.

For about eight months of 2023, I worked with this lady Jessica Kriegel at a company called Culture Partners. I was doing some of her “thought leadership.” To give her credit, she would usually generate the ideas, although sometimes I would, and then I’d craft and she’d edit. She was the one flying around and speaking, tho. I wasn’t that.

I liked her and still like some of her work. I ended up on my arse at that job because we brought in a classic middle manager to “run marketing” — which was needed, because marketing had been a train wreck for a while there — and the guy ended up hating me. It was kinda jarring. I definitely wasn’t the best employee, but I didn’t deserve that BS either. Oh well.

Here’s a new column from Jessica (the thing I used to write):

Employees Need to Start Taking Accountability for Layoffs

I thought this was an interesting little dance around how a lot of white-collar executives currently think. There’s a lot of two-faced stuff even in this post. To wit:

1. She starts by talking about how employees need to…