Last week I read on the internet about an alarming trend:
Office workers engage in “brain doping” by taking ADHD pills like Adderall to enhance their performance. The drugs enable these staff members to achieve superhuman output on the job.
Just. Why. Not ever have I been a fan of getting a job in a corporate office. Unless you are like my friend Robin. He obtained an MBA and had a 20-year career in business.
A corporate career might suit you and other followers. I wouldn’t entirely rule out working in an office. Provided management treats employees right.
The fact that people are brain doping on the job shows how insidiously harmful late-stage capitalism is when businesses put profits before people. Then workers put earning money as their reason for working and brain doping. Getting ahead in corporate America should not come at the expense of our sanity.
About two or three years ago a former Amazon office employee published an expose of her time working at that company. The book was titled Exit Interview.
Amazon expects office workers to come in on Saturdays when their managers call them on the phone that morning.
This is unlivable. This is unworkable. The Exit Interview author wrote that after working at Amazon for 12 years she couldn’t recognize herself in the mirror.
In the coming blog entry I’m going to write in more detail about the insanity of businesses–and even non-profits–demanding total allegiance at the expense of our mental and physical health.
I urge followers not to engage in brain doping.
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