Boss forces weekly emotional check-ins, regularly asks personal questions, driving employee to plan their exit: ‘She privately messages me for an "energy check" if I'm not full of energy and excited to be around her’

Workplace culture is presumably about camaraderie and collaboration, or so the pompous hiring posts tell us. But sometimes, it takes a hard left into "cult-like nightmare" where your boss decides that everything about you is their business.

Forget boundaries, privacy, or simply being left alone to do your job, those are luxuries in a workplace where "building culture" means mandatory emotional check-ins, surprise weekend "events," and pretending you're thrilled to overshare about your personal life. It's less about productivity and more about surviving a bizarre social experiment where your boss is the self-proclaimed guru of your soul.

This type of workplace doesn't just teach you resilience, it gives you a crash course in spotting red flags. Like, maybe your boss shouldn't care about your energy levels unless you're a literal battery. Or maybe we go back to the "good old days" where a job was just a job, not a poorly disguised therapy session led by someone who thinks they're Oprah, which would be fine by me if EVERYONE got a car.

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For one unlucky employee, this is the reality of their job. Their boss has taken “supportive” to new, suffocating heights, constantly prying into personal details, critiquing everything down to their tone on client calls, and acting like emotional monitoring is a reasonable part of any job.
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