Six Ways to Cope with Working in the Ego-System…No, It Does Not Involve Recording Your Boss!

Last week, I published an article about today’s Ego-System: Five Signs That You Are Working in an Egosystem…and the Misery It Brings | by LaToya R Jefferson-James | May, 2024 | Medium While I consider naming and clearly defining a problem as half the battle, I never want to leave you, Reader, without some kind of plausible solution. This week’s article outlines survival strategies for those of us who are stuck working for an egomaniac.

About a month ago, Dear Reader, I thought about people’s resistance to returning to work post-CoVid19. Employers are screaming and squalling physically and digitally that American workers are just lazy and taking advantage of post-pandemic malaise to make more money for doing less. Afterall, most of us cannot be adequately micromanaged in our homes. While some folk may be lazy, the vast majority of American workers are not. The vast majority of us want a steady job with a descent salary and good benefits. That’s it. Some of us obtain those things, and we still leave. This “quiet quitting” or “employment ghosting” or whatever the new catch-phrase for leaving a job is left me wondering why. Why do people leave good jobs? And the answer I received came from a popular post that I saw being shared and reshared Facebook (I know! Of all places!): “People don’t leave good jobs: they leave bad management.” That. Is. True.

When I published Five Signs That You Are Working in an Egosystem…and the Misery It…