When the new boss came around
I told him that the business was evil
and he asked me for proof
so I spent the day
collecting incidents
from our customers
where they felt cheated
by our byzantine
charges without permission
and without refund
and by the end of that day
I was fired.

Before then
I had a pretty sharp tongue around whatever office
I was in
and I’d hear people say
“You might wanna be careful,”
and I’d respond with,
“I have never been harmed for being honest in the office.”

What a jerk.
I keep a bit quieter now.

Of course since then
my offices
have made it a point to decentralize
so workers have less opportunity to chat.
One of the benefits of remote workers, I guess,
subtle conversations kinda disappear.

No matter.
I have much less to say.
I got no motivation to speak out
about what my company is doing.
What purpose could it serve?

But the other day,
there was this policy
that seemed like it was gonna bite us in the ass
if we don’t get proactive
and they just closed the ticket –
not important.
Let it go.