#Workplace
If Someone Is Buttering You, They May Have a Knife Too
The butter and the knife are not separate things. They are the same tool, applied in sequence. What looks like recognition is sometimes the first half of an extraction.
5/26/2026How Indian Workplaces Silence You Before You Finish Speaking
She came out of the washroom and you could tell. Not from her face. She had fixed her face.
5/8/2026The Psychology of Feeling Special at Work
Corporations figured out long ago that making an employee feel special is more effective than paying them more. The mechanisms of corporate honeytrapping, and how to recognize them.
5/2/2026Revenge Quitting: The Psychology of Leaving a Job to Hurt Someone Who Will Never Notice
47% of workers have considered revenge quitting. The target almost never notices. Here is what it actually costs, and what it means to finally choose yourself.
4/16/2026Gig Economy vs IT Jobs: Which Exploits You More?
Both the gig economy and the IT sector exploit workers. One takes your body and your money. The other takes something harder to get back.
4/15/2026Why Indian IT Companies Want Your Evenings, Your Weekends, and Eventually Your Health
Indian IT companies have built a system that extracts labor through culture, not contracts. The hours are not a bug. They are the product.
4/15/2026Signs Your Boss Is a Narcissist (And What It's Actually Doing to You)
The dread before meetings. The second-guessing. The slow erosion of your confidence. Working under a narcissistic boss has a distinct pattern, and recognising it changes everything.
4/14/2026When Your Manager Just Doesn't Like You: A Workplace Case Study
Vertika did everything right at work. Good output, no complaints, two years in. So why was her career going nowhere? A case study on managerial bias and how it quietly destroys careers.
4/12/2026