The Burnout

So it’s 9.00 am and I’m sitting in a cafe. There’s this guy on a work call next to me.
He is the picture perfect of what I despise: he is on the phone with someone whom I feel he is trying to impress so probably someone he is looking up to on a corporate level.
This guy is not happy in his skin, physically you can tell in just one glance.
He is simply bitching about a group coaching training he had. He is criticising the coach for not having used the conference call system before, finding anything he can but nothing related to the coach capabilities. As the conversation goes on he gets to the point: he didn’t score great and doesn’t even know how he could score better. The guy/women on the other side of the conversation seems to have scored perfectly and loved the group program! There, he caves, tries to crack a joke, talks about challenges, objectives, targets. He goes into more bitching, he goes into judgement of yet another coach who “is a really nice guy but… he isn’t great as a coach, he was trying too hard…”
Who is trying too hard now!???
At this point I feel sorry for this guy. I feel sorry that most of the corporate world is dominated by such people because of corporate culture! The ones who feel like they aren’t good enough but won’t admit it to themselves so they just hammer everyone else around them in a bid to rise. Those are the cancer of the corporate world.
We all know I have 16 years of a very successful corporate career behind me. Yet I have never felt the need to crush people, to be unfair, to pretend, to not be able to look in the mirror.
These kind of people are the reason for my unability to do corporate anymore. They are the final push to my burn out. Don’t get me wrong, I thank them for opening my eyes on something I chose to walk away from. Because if I can’t fight it, I can’t stand the injustice, the attacks, the crushing, I’d rather walk away to protect me and my energy.

One day, corporations will have to change. Balance will be found. The coming generations will not stand for this total rubbish nonsense.
There is enough for everyone, it is not a competition, pull each other up and you will discover a whole new meaning to success. Aren’t the best managers the ones who are not affraid of growing the skills of their people, not affraid of their people growing into their roles and taking over.
The future lies in the ability to encourage, help and cheer each other to all thrive together.
I am happy and relieved to walk away from this. It nearly destroyed me but most of all it gave me my wings to embrace the energy therapist in me and spread healing.

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