Archive & Roadmap

This is the complete roadmap for all 22 essays in the series. Published essays are linked and available to read. Essays in progress are listed with their planned themes.

Part I: Corporate Reality — The System Behind the Slogans

This opening act establishes credibility as both insider and observer—someone who believed in the mission until seeing how culture can be both cultivated and commodified. These essays examine the structural contradictions between stated values and lived experience.

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    1. The Real Cost of Culture Fit
    How conformity masquerades as culture and undermines diversity.
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    2. When Corporate Values Become Marketing
    The difference between lived values and award-winning PR. The 100-Point Paradox.
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    3. The Illusion of Efficiency: When Cost-Cutting Costs More
    How "budget alignment" becomes moral misalignment.
  • Planned
    4. Ownership Culture Ends Where the Org Chart Begins
    Why empowerment slogans fail without reciprocal trust.
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    5. The Mirage of Diversity in a Budget Crisis
    How DEI collapses the moment budgets tighten.
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    6. Automation Without Empathy
    The paradox of building the tools that eventually displace you.
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    7. Ethics in Retrospect: What Companies Forget When Cutting Costs
    Why layoffs framed as "efficiency" corrode long-term trust.

Part II: The Human Cost — What Work Takes When It Stops Caring

Here, the camera zooms in. These pieces translate corporate abstraction into human emotion—the exhaustion of masking, the coercion of "choice," and the silence demanded by professionalism. They're not about bitterness; they're about bearing witness.

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    8. Invisible Labor: Neurodivergence and the Unseen Effort to Belong
    The double workload of performing and pretending.
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    9. The Emotional Labor of Staying Silent
    How suppression becomes a survival skill—and a slow poison.
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    10. Hostile by Design: When "Feedback" Becomes Public Shaming
    The psychological toll of performative transparency.
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    11. Severance Under Duress: The Quiet Economics of Power
    The legal-sounding, human-breaking side of "voluntary" agreements.
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    12. Disability as a PR Asset vs. a Workplace Reality
    What happens when "mental health awareness" meets real need.
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    13. The Bureaucracy of Disbelief
    How HR systems protect institutions, not the people they serve.
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    14. Why 'Resilience' Became the Corporate Coping Mechanism
    The myth of bouncing back when the ground keeps shifting.
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    15. The Outsourcing of Empathy
    When global efficiency erases local humanity.

Part III: Recovery & Rebuilding — Reclaiming Work, Purpose, and Voice

The final act rebuilds hope without naivety. It explores what comes after disillusionment—how purpose re-emerges through community, creativity, and transparency. This section positions Jon's Job Blog as a movement toward more humane work.

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    16. Purpose After Burnout
    Finding meaning once productivity loses its moral authority.
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    17. The Metrics of Humanity
    Redefining success around care, not compliance.
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    18. How "Professionalism" Silences the Neurodivergent
    Reclaiming integrity from tone-policed conformity.
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    19. Community Service as a Counterweight to Corporate Apathy
    How volunteerism restores the social fabric profit unraveled.
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    20. Transparency as Self-Defense
    Turning documentation into dignity and accountability.
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    21. The Geography of Dignity: Global Teams, Local Consequences
    Building empathy across borders and bandwidths.
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    22. Reclaiming the Narrative: From HR File to Human Story
    Why storytelling is the worker's last tool of reform.

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