“The Job Will Never, Ever Love You.”

Roxane Gay drops her own particular mic.

Roxane Gay wrote a “Work Friend” column for The New York Times for a few years, and she’s outie-5000 on doing it now. Here is her final column:

Goodbye, Work Friends

Stowe Boyd also summarized the column and its contents:

How We Spend Our Lives

Here are three of the final paragraphs:

And, frankly, a fulfilling and equitable professional life should not be the stuff of utopia. This should be our reality. It is astonishing to see how many people are so deeply unhappy at work, so trapped by circumstances beyond their control, so vulnerable to toxic workplaces and toxic cultural…