‘The hardest part of my job isn’t the work, it’s the constant urgency over nothing‘: Company treats every minor task like a crisis, drowning its staff in fake emergencies until stress becomes the main worload

While most workers, including me, run on caffeine, this company makes them run on panic. Every email lands like a countdown, every meeting invite feels like a smoke alarm, and every so-called emergency dissolves quietly by Friday when no one remembers why they were yelling. The job itself is fine, the people are decent, but the culture is allergic to calm. Someone sneezes urgently, and the whole department reaches for their laptops like it's a hostage situation.  

In this workplace, adrenaline is basically part of the benefits package. Managers love using words like "immediate" and "critical" for tasks that involve PowerPoint slides. The result is a full-time performance of fake chaos, complete with typing noises and dramatic sighs. No one is actually saving lives, but everyone is very committed to acting as if they might be. It creates this background hum of dread that doesn't stop when the laptop closes. Even silence starts to sound suspicious, as if peace itself forgot to copy HR on the memo. 

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